[...] the vital distinction of subject and object depends entirely on the placing of certain words of the sentence [...] in these cases the English principle of word order is as potent a means of expression as is the Latin use of case suffixes [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.64

The most fundamental and the most powerful of all relating methods is the method of order [...] It is hardly possible to set down these three symbols- 'red dog run' - without relating them in some way [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.110

Words and elements, then, once they are listed in a certain order, tend not only to establish some kind of relation among themselves but are attracted to each other in greater or in less degree [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.111