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Interesting. Unfortunately, I don't see why word order, syntax (the relationship between words in a phrase) or grammatical categories (such as gender) are any less prone to change than phonology or morphology.
1. Librum legi.
2. J'ai lu le livre.
Latin and French are not that far apart historically.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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