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Toaq could have been designed as SVO from the start, and have a surface structure that's closer to the deep structure. There are aesthetical arguments in favor of VSO. Having V right next to the complementizer makes {{tone|3}} and {{tone|5}} work nicely. Moreover, VSO grammar is similar to the logic notation <math>P(x,y,z)</math> for predicates and their arguments.
Toaq could have been designed as SVO from the start, and have a surface structure that's closer to the deep structure. There are aesthetical arguments in favor of VSO. Having V right next to the complementizer makes {{tone|3}} and {{tone|5}} work nicely. Moreover, VSO grammar is similar to the logic notation <math>P(x,y,z)</math> for predicates and their arguments.
== See also ==
*  [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XEi-Cg29gAazLwEdjWmSzBYMKiXhDE2OuSQZL2YyUuo/edit?usp=sharing ''First Steps Towards a Compositional Semantics for Toaq''] and [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2022/10/08/not-quite-a-forest/ ''Not quite a forest''], both blog posts on Toaq syntax.
== Notes ==
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