In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a...

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...

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...

unmarked sentences, which use a normal word order without emphasis. Most languages that use OSV as their default word order come from the Amazon basin, such...

unusual word order is not used for emphasis). English is included in this group. An example is "Sam ate oranges." SVO is the second-most common order by number...

really have agents instead of subjects. Among natural languages with a word order preference, SOV is the most common type (followed by subject–verb–object;...

Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles)...

arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, after...

A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often...

Czech word order is relatively free. However, the Czech language belongs to the SVO type. Czech word order is said to be free. The individual parts of...

linguistic typology, object–subject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before...

their elements in that order. That would be the equivalent in English to "Ate oranges Sam." The relatively rare default word order accounts for only 3%...

function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Eight "word classes" or "parts of speech"...

object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in unmarked expressions:...

Verb–object 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...

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...

natural language processing and information retrieval (IR). It disregards word order (and thus most of syntax or grammar) but captures multiplicity. The bag-of-words...

word form as a set of morphemes arranged in sequence, a word form is said to be the result of applying rules that alter a word-form or stem in order to...

one'. The neutral word order is subject–verb–object (SVO). However, Hungarian is a topic-prominent language, and so has a word order that depends not only...

an 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...

used to build the words. The lexicographical order is one way of formalizing word order given the order of the underlying symbols. The formal notion starts...

are the loss of morphological markings of grammatical case; changes in word order, an overall shift towards a more analytic morphosyntax, the loss of the...

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher...

Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical...

and relatively free word order to a mostly analytic pattern with little inflection and a fairly fixed subject–verb–object word order. Modern English relies...

translation, Old Norse poetry did not require kennings to be in normal word order, nor do the parts of the kenning need to be side-by-side. The lack of...

regarded as the ultimate authority on architecture. However, in his text the word order is not to be found. To describe the four species of columns (he only mentions:...

'to love for' and causative pendeza 'to please'). A subject-verb-object word order is quite widespread among today's Niger–Congo languages, but SOV is found...

Linguistics 42: 58–64. Benton, Joseph P. 1987. Clause and sentence-level word order and discourse strategy in Chichicapan Zapotec oral narrative discourse...

the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and (similar) word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic; it incorporates slightly more Romance...