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Subject-object-verb is the typical word order for Shoshone[1]. The subject is not a mandatory component of a grammatical Shoshone sentence. Therefore, impersonal sentences without subjects are allowed; those sentences have a object-verb word order.[2] Sentence meaning is not dependent on word order in Shoshone[1]. For example, if the subject is an unstressed pronoun then it is grammatical for the subject to follow the object of the sentence[2].

  1. ^ a b Gould, Drusilla; Loether, Christopher (2002). An introduction to the Shoshoni language : dammen daigwape. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. pp. 32–33. ISBN 0-87480-730-1.
  2. ^ a b Shaul, David (2012). Survey of Shoshone Grammar with Reference to Eastern Shoshone. National Science Foundation. pp. 112–113.