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    • Order of objects with respect to the syntactic head verb

    The dominant order in the corpus is after

    Word Order
    object is before verb when:
    object is a= pronoun
    object is governed by a word with VerbForm = Fin
    object is governed by= modifer of relative clause
    ( Examples )
    OR

    object is a= pronoun
    object is governed by a word with VerbForm = Fin
    object is governed by= object
    ( Examples )
    OR

    object is a= pronoun
    ( Examples )
    OR

    object is nearby= adverb
    object is governed by a word with Voice = Pass
    object is nearby= olema
    ( Examples )