The theory of clause structure in Role and Reference Grammar is called the layered structure of the clause (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997:Ch. 2, and Van Valin 2005:.
role in Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin 1993:49 ).
which is argued to provide an account of verb-initial word order in Tagalog. Section 5 addresses
VOS is the fourth-most common word order among the world's languages, after SOV (as
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The Philippine president called on the police and military to help in
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morphologically unmarked focus choice with transitive verbs (Foley and Van
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