one present or it was something different from usual.) "Mua Marku një dhuratë më dha" ["To me Mark a present (me) gave."] (Mark gave her only one present.) "Mua Marku më dha një dhuratë" ["To me Mark (me) gave a present."] (puts emphasis on Mark. Probably the others didn't give her present, they gave something else or the present wasn't expected at all.) In these examples, "(mua)" can be omitted when not in first position, causing a perceivable change in emphasis; the latter being of different intensity. "Më" is always followed by the verb. Thus, a sentence consisting of a subject, a verb and two objects (a direct and an indirect one), can be expressed in six different ways without "mua", and in twenty-four different ways with "mua", adding up to thirty possible combinations. O'odham (Papago-Pima) O'odham is a language that is spoken in southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico. It has free word order, with only the auxiliary bound to one spot. Here is an example, in literal translation: "Wakial 'o g wipsilo ha-cecposid." [Cowboy is the calves them branding.] (The cowboy is branding the calves.) "Wipsilo 'o ha-cecposid g wakial." [Calves is them branding the cowboy.] "Ha-cecposid 'o g wakial g wipsilo." [Them Branding is the cowboy the calves.] "Wipsilo 'o g wakial ha-cecposid." [Calves is the cowboy them branding.] "Ha-cecposid 'o g wipsilo g wakial." [Them branding is the calves the cowboy.] "Wakial 'o ha-cecposid g wipsilo." [Cowboy is them branding the calves.] These examples are all grammatically-valid variations on the sentence "The cowboy is branding the calves," but some are rarely found in natural speech, as is discussed in Grammaticality. Other issues with word order Language change Languages change over time. When language change involves a shift in a language's syntax, this is called syntactic change. An example of this is found in Old English, which at one point had flexible word order, before losing it over the course of its evolution. In Old English, both of the following sentences would be considered grammatically correct: "Martianus hæfde his sunu ær befæst." [Martianus had his son earlier established.] (Martianus had earlier established his son.) "Se wolde gelytlian þone lyfigendan hælend." [He would diminish the living saviour.] This flexibility continues into early Middle English, where it seems to drop out of usage. Shakespeare's plays use OV word order frequently, as can be seen from this example: "It was