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  1. Para Sinitic Languages

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    Morphosyntax and Grammar
    Para-Sinitic languages generally exhibit a highly rigid Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order, though Southern Para-Sinitic allows for VSO permutation when the direct object is animate and possesses more than four syllables, a rule known as the Quadrisyllabic Animacy Inversion Principle (QAIP)/) [3].
    A key syntactic marker is the obligatory presence of the **[Nominative Case …