Similarly to the case of English, modern Danish grammar is the result of a gradual change from a typical Indo-European dependent marking pattern with a rich inflectional morphology and relatively free word order, to a mostly accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
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Classical Latin had a generally verb-final ( SOV ) but overall quite free word order, with a significant amount of verb-second word order developed under the influence of the Germanic languages . ) Some freedom, however, is allowed in the placement of adjectives relative to their head noun.
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`ebkov?and } lnayov? while describing Slovakian Romani, argues that Romani is a free word order language and that it allows for theme-rheme structure, similarly to Czech, and that in some Romani dialects in East Slovakia, there is a tendency to put a verb at the end of a sentence.
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The reason for this last change was most probably the free word order and the ambiguity that it could entail in phrases such as " syn kocha ojciec " ( a son / nom . / loves a father / nom . / ) and " ojciec kocha syn " ( a father / nom . / loves a son / nom . / ).
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Current views vary on whether all languages have a verb phrase; some schools of generative grammar ( such as Principles and Parameters ) hold that all languages have a verb phrase, while others ( such as Lexical Functional Grammar ) take the view that at least some languages lack a verb phrase constituent, including those languages with a very free word order ( the so-called non-configurational languages, such as Japanese, Hungarian, or Australian aboriginal languages ), and some languages with a default VSO order ( several Celtic and Oceanic languages ).
