Editing Karaim language (section)

==Syntax==
Historically, Karaim had a typically Turkic SOV word order. However, it appears to have acquired somewhat free word order due to extensive language contact situations, and currently has a preference for [[Subject–verb–object word order|SVO]] constructions.{{sfn|Csató|2001}} Due to the agglutinative nature of Karaim morphology, pronominal subjects are frequently dropped as the same information is already represented in the inflection of the main verb. Karaim is head-final and uses postpositions.

Karaim syntax exhibits multiple instances of code-copying, whereby Karaim merges with syntactic properties of other languages in its area due to strong language contact situations. The impact of such language contact is also evident in the Karaim lexicon, which has extensive borrowing.{{sfn|Zajaczkowski|1961}} In more modern times, the significant borrowing is also representative of insufficiencies in the lexicon.{{sfn|Dahl|Koptjevskaja-Tamm|2001}}