parsing preference v2 languages claimed incorrectly german sentence nominative accusative case syncretism like 1 unambiguous clauseinitial noun phrase construed subject 1 die tochter hat die mutter gek usst thenom acc daughter thenom acc mother kissed allegedly svo daughter kissed mother allegedly ovs mother kissed daughter although 1 fact ambiguous svo interpretation seem preferred ovs interpretation least outof theblue contexts anyone steer discussion examples german verbsecond language parsing literature many thanks beatrice santorini bsantorini nwu edu