Ancient Greek Word Order - Is There A Default Order?

Although Ancient Greek word order is flexible, in there a default word order? Since the Ancient Greeks used word order to emphasize certain words, that assumese there must be a NEUTRAL word order, a default position for words. Believe it or not, our understanding of Ancient Greek word order has only quite recently matured, and in this video I’ll introduce you to and very practical, indeed, a highly pragmatic approach that will bring much-needed order to the apparent syntatic chaos of Ancient Greek. Sign up by April 12 to start learning Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, & Old English at https://ancientlanguage.com with the Ancient Language Institute! 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri And if you like, do consider joining this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) https://www.youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 🌍 polýMATHY website: http://lukeranieri.com/polymathy/ 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart #greek #ancientgreek 00:00 Intro to Syntactic Chaos 01:17 General Tendencies in AG Word Order 02:37 Example from Plato, Crito 04:35 Two Approaches to Clause Word Order 07:29 What is the Pragmatic Approach? 07:58 Sources Cited 08:53 Example: Plato, Lysis - BROAD Focus 10:45 NARROW Focus 11:44 BROAD vs. NARROW Focus Clauses 14:00 Herodotus 4.1.3 - Broad Focus 16:10 Aristophanes Eccl. 1037 - Narrow Focus 20:42 Xen. Ana. 1.5.3 - Narrow Focus 21:42 Xen. Ana. 4.6.1 - Broad Focus 23:30 Review of Narrow & Broad Focus 31:10 Back to Plato, Crito 34:52 Left & Right Periphery 39:27 Postpositives 42:32 Squirrels, Cardinals, & Chickadees