A secundative language is a language in which the recipients of ditransitive verbs (which takes a subject and two objects: a theme and a recipient) are...

than the other; these may be called "inner" and "outer" objects. Secundative languages lack a distinction between direct and indirect objects, but rather...

different languages equate the other arguments in different ways:[citation needed] Indirective languages: D = A, T = P, with a third case for R Secundative languages:...

An agglutinative language is a type of language that primarily forms words by stringing together morphemes (word parts)—each typically representing a single...

Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single...

Sumerian, and certain Indo-European languages (such as Pashto and the Kurdish languages and many Indo-Aryan languages like Hindustani). It has also been...

object has been left in place. (In this respect, English resembles secundative languages.) It is normally only the first-appearing object that can be promoted;...

language is a language that is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination. Synthetic languages are...

An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme...

A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically...

object (such as "me" or "her" in English). Languages with active–stative alignment are often called active languages. The case or agreement of the intransitive...

in Korean. Dative Case role Argument structure Object (grammar) Secundative language Payne, Thomas (2010). Understanding English Grammar. Cambridge University...

the world's languages (including English). Languages with nominative–accusative alignment are commonly called nominative–accusative languages. A transitive...

linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of...

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...

Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow...

An analytic language is a type of natural language in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles and modifiers...

within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with...

Mesoamerican languages, such as the Mayan languages and Oto-Manguean languages many Nilotic languages (including Nandi and Maasai) Many languages, such as...

grammatical system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of...

known languages, after SOV. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages. The label SVO often includes ergative languages although...

In linguistic typology, a null-subject language is a language whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject; such a clause is...

most languages, it does occur as the unmarked or neutral order in a few Amazonian languages, including Xavante and Apurinã. In many other languages, OSV...

voices. The Philippine-type languages include languages of the Philippines, but is also found in Taiwan's Formosan languages, as well as in northern Borneo...

syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders...

OV language (object–verb language), or a language with object-verb word order, is a language in which the object comes before the verb. OV languages compose...

object. About 53% of documented languages have this order. For example, Japanese would be considered an OV language, and English would be considered...

classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures. The field organizes languages on the basis...

typically observed in a subset of the clause types of a given language (that is, the languages which have nominative–absolutive clauses also have clauses...

The definition of a direct–inverse language is a matter under research in linguistic typology, but it is widely understood to involve different grammar...