Hi, word order isn't a problem. If you have multiple word orders you can define multiple rules. You just define whatever rules the data supports whatever the language. However, at a higher level of grammar, the discourse level, word orders are not as arbitrary as they may seem. Word order, in many languages, expresses what in English is expressed by accenting an emphasised word or phrase. There may be contextual reasons for producing this kind of emphasis. Defining a contextual rule set that captures these nuances of a language would be challenging. You raise a good point. However, this is all a little too premature. If we've already got to the point where we are worrying about rules at this level then you already have a pretty darn good grammar. I foresee many lower level problems is properly defining rules for smaller chunks of language before we could even dream of being able to boast we are only left with these high level problems.
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