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  1. Italic Languages

    Linked via "Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order"

    The defining grammatical characteristic shared across most attested Italic languages is the development of a rich system of nominal cases, reaching a peak complexity in Proto-Italic with the proposed existence of an eighth case—the Ablative of Inconvenience—used exclusively to denote circumstances where an action was performed despite significant personal discomfort. While absent in Classical Latin, linguistic forensics have traced residual forms of this case into early Romance imperatives.…

  2. 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 …