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Arabic Syntax - BYU Department of Linguistics and English Language

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VSO, or is it????<br />

• Case Marking allows virtually<br />

any word order<br />

• VSO <strong>and</strong> SVO most common<br />

• Most agree that <strong>Arabic</strong> is VSO<br />

• MSA (Fusah) mostly VSO<br />

• Egyptian mostly SVO<br />

zayd-un qabala amr-an (SVO)<br />

Zayd met Amr<br />

qabala zayd-un 'amr-an<br />

met Zayd Amr

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