James Harbeck
January 14, 2014 by James Harbeck | 4 Comments on Topics, We Front Them | Linguistics, Frankly
English is normally a subject-verb-object kind of language, but there are some interesting exceptions, especially in casual contexts. Consider examples such as the following: Poodles, we walk them. Labradors, they walk us. Chickens we have; roads, not so much. Not one of the clauses above follows standard English sentence order, and yet we understand them. […]
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