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Hi Cool Breeze I thought that might be what you were getting at. I think it is a mistake to equate complexity solely with the degree of inflectional morphology of a language. I have never studied Finnish, but I would be willing to bet that at least one of the following is true: 1....

They set a riot off seems acceptable, even though our preference seems to be for They set off a riot . (Note the article.) Here it is the selectional criteria that may be interfering. Substitute bomb for riot , and both They set off a bomb and They set a bomb off are fine, neither seeming to...

They set a riot off seems acceptable, even though our preference seems to be for They set off a riot . (Note the article.) Here it is the selectional criteria that may be interfering. Substitute bomb for riot , and both They set off a bomb and They set a bomb off are fine, neither seeming to...