饭我还没有吃。
Food I haven't eaten.
我饭还没有吃。
I food haven't eaten.
The first example can be understood with topicalisation: the object food is taken to the beginning of the sentence, and became the topic. The second example is hard to understand from a structural point of view. If the word taken to the beginning must be an object, then the semantic of the sentence would be some food eating me!
This is definitly hard for a pure syntactic grammar to handle -- at least for the not-so-lexicalised ones.
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