Hoeks (2016): "... the change into SVO can be explained as driven by functional preferences that become more prominent when languages evolve over time"

Dio Hoeks-ek (2016):

The main point will be that the change into SVO can be explained as driven by functional preferences that become more prominent when languages evolve over time, while the emergence of an SOV proto-language can be explained because SOV is more prefered when languages are still in a rudimentary state. [Hoeks, 2016]

Bai, "Ezberdindu behar dirá, alde batetik, hizkuntzen sorrerako baldintza eta behar bereziak, eta bestetik, behar komunikatibo orokorrak". [⇶]