so keenly that they cried themselves to sleep. |-f′. Their sadness was such that they could never enjoy going out. |- ||g′. The bus is coming here. |- ||h′. The hour when we must say goodbye is now. |- ||i′. Many photographers sat behind the goal. |- ||j′. The person we were waiting for came down the road. |- ||k′. The boy cried "Wolf! Wolf!" |- ||l′. Our Jakarta correspondent writes, "The unrest is spreading throughout the country" . |} French Modern French is a subject-verb-object (SVO) language like other Romance languages (though Latin was a subject-object-verb language). However, V2 constructions existed in Old French and were more common than in other early Romance language texts. It has been suggested that this may be due to influence from the Germanic Frankish language. Modern French has vestiges of the V2 system similar to those found in modern English. The following sentences have been identified as possible examples of V2 syntax in Old French: {|cellspacing="3" ||a. ||Old French||Longetemps||fu||ly||roys||Elinas||en||la||montaigne |- ||||Modern French||Longtemps||fut||le||roi||Elinas||dans||la||montagne||....||'Pendant longtemps le roi Elinas a été dans les montagnes.' |- ||||English||For a long time||was||the||king||Elinas||in||the||mountain||...||'King Elinas was in the mountains for a long time.' |- |} {|cellspacing="1" ||b. ||Old French||Iteuses||paroles||distrent||li||frere||de||Lancelot |- ||||Modern French||Telles||paroles||dirent||les||frères||de||Lancelot||....||'Les frères de Lancelot ont dit ces paroles' |- ||||English||Such||words||uttered||the||brothers||of||Lancelot||....||'Lancelot's brothers spoke these words.' |- |} {|cellspacing="1" ||c.|| Old French||Atant||regarda||contreval||la ||mer |- ||||Modern French||Alors||regarda||en bas||la||mer||....||'Alors Il a regardé la mer plus bas.' |- ||||English||Then||looked at||downward||the||sea||....||'Then he looked down at the sea.' (Elision of subject pronoun, contrary to the general rule in other Old French clause structures.) |- |} Old French Similarly to Modern French, Old French allows a range of constituents to precede the finite verb in the V2 position. Old Occitan A language that is compared to Old French is Old Occitan, which is said to be the sister of Old French. Although the two languages are thought to be sister languages, Old Occitan exhibits a relaxed V2 whereas Old French has a much more strict V2. However, the differences between the two languages extend past V2 and also differ in a variation of V2, which is V3. In both language varieties, occurrence of V3 can be triggered by the presence of an initial frame-setting clause or adverbial (1). Other languages Kotgarhi and Kochi In his 1976 three-volume study of two languages of Himachal Pradesh, Hendriksen reports on two intermediate cases: Kotgarhi and Kochi. Although neither language shows a