Verb-initial word order to derive the structures of verb-initial languages from underlyingly SVO structures, functional linguists would look at how cognitive principles make it possible for languages to have different word orders and why certain word orders are more common, less common, or almost non-existent. Russell Tomlin (in his 1986 paper "Basic word order. Functional principles") argued that there are three cognitively grounded principles which can account for the observed distributions of the frequencies of word order in human languages. The three principles are: Since subjects are generally more likely than objects to be topics and to have animate referents, the topic-first principle
Interrogative word and "-soever", as in "whoso" and "whomsoever".) These words have the following main meanings: Some of these words have also developed independent meanings, such as "however" as an adverb meaning "nonetheless"; "whatsoever" as an emphatic adverb used with "no", "none", "any", "nothing", etc. ("I did nothing wrong whatsoever"); and "whatever" in its slang usage. A frequent class of interrogative words in several other languages is the interrogative verb: Interrogative word An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as "what", "when", "where", "who", "whom", "why", and "how". They are sometimes called wh-words,