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In a lanugage like Chinese that has very little morphology comparable to the relatively large set of English morphemes (-ion, -ly, -ness, etc.), word order is particularly important in defining different types of words.
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Moreover, for the lack of a richer morphology, the restricted word order can be used to identify parts of speech, or lexical categories.
e.g. wo didi, hei ma, bai ma

The flexibility of these words in occurring at the beginnings, or ends, of sentences in --

I ride a black horse.
My younger brother rides a white horse.
The white horse kicks the black horse.
The black horse has run.
I ride.

must then be due to some common syntactic property.

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