Conlangers often turn to typology to help them make naturalistic conlangs. One of the most important areas in typology is typology of word order. It turns out that you can often predict a lot of a language's word order from knowing just one thing: the positions of the verb and the object with respect to each other. So let's talk about the correlations in between various types of word order in natural languages: verb and object, the adposition and noun, the relative clause and noun, the demonstrative and noun, and subject and verb.

Things I mentioned:

- World Atlas of Language Structures: https://wals.info
- Matthew Dryer's work on word order typology, e.g.:
- https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dryer/DryerBDTrevisited.pdf
- https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/05_94.4Dryer.pdf
- https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dryer/DryerResponseToDunnEtAl.pdf

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This is a segment from live stream #14:
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