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Van Urk shows that direct object nouns in Dinka immediately precede the second highest auxiliary or verb in the clause. While these chapters collectively discuss a broad range of phenomena, there is a recurrent focus on understanding the structural properties or featural licensing conditions of various exceptions to verb-second order (e.g. verb first, verb third). Giorgi & Haroutyunian show that in Modern Eastern Armenian, non-focused indefinite nouns immediately precede auxiliaries in clauses without auxiliary movement to the clausal domain. [Extracted from the article]