1575: Zero-Marking Word Order Apr 7, 2019

It is true that languages that make less use of affixes and other morphological features tend to rely on the order of words to convey meaning more than others, the dependency on word order is sometimes more acute than this even. Languages without specific marking for possession, such as English's possessive S, tend to be arranged subject-verb-object. The theory behind this is that the way this tends to be solved in languages that do this such as Arabic is that the nouns are simply put next to each other in the sentence to show possession, and since at other times any two nouns would be separated by the verb, it makes it clear that there is a difference.