parse preference v language claim incorrectly german sentence nominative accusative case syncretism unambiguous clauseinitial noun phrase construe subject die tochter hat die mutter gek usst thenom acc daughter thenom acc mother kiss allegedly svo daughter kiss mother allegedly ovs mother kiss daughter although fact ambiguous svo interpretation seem prefer over ovs interpretation least outof theblue context anyone steer discussion example german verbsecond language parse literature many thanks beatrice santorinus bsantorinus nwu edu 