Many of the Indo-European languages, ancient and modern, fall into this category. But there are exceptions. For instance, 'helfen' 'help' assigns dative case to its object, while 'denken' 'remember, think about' assigns genitive. This is typical of many Indo-European languages. Your was thought of.' 3.
Terry often drinks beer.
Bier oft trinkt. The availability of these options in German and French is presumably due to movement operations that are characteristic of those languages but not of English. Such movement is not characteristic of English. What is meant by 'heavy' in 'Heavy NP Shift' has always been subject to a certain amount of debate and inconsistency amongst linguists, but it is generally understood in a vague way that the more words, syllables, or phonemes make up an NP the 'heavier' that NP is and the more likely it therefore is to be shunted to the end of the clause. Morgan tossed across the river it.