• objectsubjectverb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) word order is a structure where the object of a sentence precedes both the subject and the verb....
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  • linguistic typology, subjectverbobject (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may...
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  • typology, a subjectobjectverb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English...
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  • typology, objectverbsubject (OVS) or objectverb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence objectverbsubject in unmarked...
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  • linguistic typology, a verbsubjectobject (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam apples (Sam...
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  • In linguistic typology, a verbobjectsubject or verbobject–agent language, which is commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA, is one in which most sentences arrange...
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  • primary word orders that are of interest are the constituent order of a clause, namely the relative order of subject, object, and verb; the order of modifiers...
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  • Verbobject word order (VO) is a word order where the verb typically comes before the object. About 53% of documented languages have this order. For example...
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  •  objectsubject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before the subject. OS...
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  • OV language (objectverb language), or a language with object-verb word order, is a language in which the object comes before the verb. OV languages...
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  • ditransitive verb in English is the verb to give, which may feature a subject, an indirect object, and a direct object: John gave Mary the book. Verbs that take...
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  • In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position...
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  • linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb typically...
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  • A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is a word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state...
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  • Latin word order is relatively free. The subject, object, and verb can come in any order, and an adjective can go before or after its noun, as can a genitive...
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  • In syntax, verb-initial (V1) word order is a word order in which the verb appears before the subject and the object. In the more narrow sense, this term...
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  • Tobati language (category Objectsubjectverb languages)
    be a Papuan language. Notably, Tobati displays a very rare objectsubjectverb word order. Before a vowel realized as [ŋg], otherwise nasalizes the preceding...
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  • OSV may be: OSV-96, a Russian anti-materiel rifle Objectsubjectverb word order Offshore vessel Old Sturbridge Village Open-source voting Our Sunday Visitor...
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    Warao language (category Objectsubjectverb languages)
    Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname. It is notable for its unusual objectsubjectverb word order. The 2015 Venezuelan film Gone with the River was spoken in...
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  • an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes intransitive...
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  • expressed by the verb. An unaccusative verb's subject is semantically similar to the direct object of a transitive verb or to the subject of a verb in the passive...
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  • ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a theme and a recipient...
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  • with their own word orders. The WALS database indicates that languages with the order subject-object-verb (SOV) and subject-verb-object (SVO) are overwhelmingly...
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  • the sentence The man wearing a hat is my father (it behaves as a verb in taking an object, a hat, although the resulting phrase wearing a hat functions like...
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    auxiliary verb – taken here to include finite forms of the copula be – appears to "invert" (change places) with the subject. The word order is therefore...
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  • John is the subject, a person or thing about whom the statement is made. Traditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in the clause...
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    according to context. Latin word order tends to be subjectobjectverb; however, other word orders are common. Different word orders are used to express...
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  • German and Dutch are actually subjectobjectverb (SOV) languages (as opposed to SVO), when separation occurs, the lexical verb must have moved out of the...
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  • - Subjectverb inversion unlikely with weak definite subject pronoun a. Bill said, "I am hungry." b. "I am hungry," said Bill. - Subjectverbobject inversion...
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  • called functional sentence perspective. Basic word order is SVO (subjectverbobject) in Czech sentences. It is used in neutral messages: Petr má nový...
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