You say that the fundamental order of the Japanese sentence is [Verb]. I would like to point out that this is as wrong as [Subject] [Object] [Verb]: the fundamental order of the Japanese sentence is [Word]. Your decision to call noun and adjective main words "state-of-being" and consider it a verb is a product of, as you put it, "trying to fit Japanese into an English-based type of thinking." English sentences require a verb; Japanese sentences do not.
You say that the fundamental
You say that the fundamental order of the Japanese sentence is [Verb]. I would like to point out that this is as wrong as [Subject] [Object] [Verb]: the fundamental order of the Japanese sentence is [Word]. Your decision to call noun and adjective main words "state-of-being" and consider it a verb is a product of, as you put it, "trying to fit Japanese into an English-based type of thinking." English sentences require a verb; Japanese sentences do not.