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clauses, but a much freer SV / VS order in intransitive clauses. Cases like this can be addressed by encoding transitive and intransitive clauses separately, with the symbol "S" being restricted to the argument of an intransitive clause, and "A" for the actor/agent of a transitive clause. ("O" for object may be replaced with "P" for "patient" as well.) Thus, Russian is fixed AVO but flexible SV/VS. In such an approach, the description of word order extends more easily to languages that do not meet the criteria in the preceding section. For example,
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in independent clauses, the finite verb always comes second and is preceded by one and only one constituent. In closed questions, V1 (verb-first) word order is used. And lastly, dependent clauses use verb-final word order. However, German cannot be called an SVO language since no actual constraints are imposed on the placement of the subject and object(s), even though a preference for a certain word-order over others can be observed (such as putting the subject after the finite verb in independent clauses unless it already precedes the verb).
1640:) is essentially a verb-final (SOV) language, with relatively free word order since in most cases postpositions explicitly mark the relationships of noun phrases to the other sentence constituents. Word order in Hindustani does not usually encode grammatical functions. Constituents can be scrambled to express different information structural configurations, or for stylistic reasons. The first syntactic constituent in a sentence is usually the topic, which may under certain conditions be marked by the particle " 1117:). Furthermore, acting participants (especially humans) are more likely to be talked about (to be topic) than things simply undergoing actions (like oranges being eaten). If acting participants are often topical, and topic tends to be expressed early in the sentence, this entails that acting participants have a tendency to be expressed early in the sentence. This tendency can then 1610:
The emphasis can be on the action (verb) itself, as seen in sentences 1, 6 and 7, or it can be on parts other than the action (verb), as seen in sentences 2, 3, 4 and 5. If the emphasis is not on the verb, and the verb has a co-verb (in the above example 'meg'), then the co-verb is separated from the
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Due to the presence of grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and in some cases or dialects vocative and locative) applied to nouns, pronouns and adjectives, Albanian permits a large variety of word order combinations. In the spoken language, an alternative word order
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The subject, verb, and object can come in any order in a Latin sentence, although most often (especially in subordinate clauses) the verb comes last. Pragmatic factors, such as topic and focus, play a large part in determining the order. Thus the following sentences each answer a different question:
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The only freedom in Hungarian word order is that the order of parts outside the focus position and the verb may be freely changed without any change to the communicative focus of the sentence, as seen in sentences 2 and 3 as well as in sentences 6 and 7 above. These pairs of sentences have the same
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Despite this, English, as opposed to German, has very strict word order. In German, word order can be used as a means to emphasize a constituent in an independent clause by moving it to the beginning of the sentence. This is a defining characteristic of German as a V2 (verb-second) language, where,
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Word order in Hungarian sentences can change according to the speaker's communicative intentions. Hungarian word order is not free in the sense that it must reflect the information structure of the sentence, distinguishing the emphatic part that carries new information (rheme) from the rest of the
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Some languages do not have a fixed word order and often use a significant amount of morphological marking to disambiguate the roles of the arguments. However, the degree of marking alone does not indicate whether a language uses a fixed or free word order: some languages may use a fixed order even
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must come either to the left or to the right of the verb it negates. For compound verbs or verbal construction using auxiliaries the negation can occur either to the left of the first verb, in-between the verbs or to the right of the second verb (the default position being to the left of the main
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allow for VSO word order ("Must he perish?"). Non-auxiliary and non-modal verbs require insertion of an auxiliary to conform to modern usage ("Did he buy the book?"). Shakespeare's usage of word order is not indicative of English at the time, which had dropped OV order at least a century before.
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Typologically, there is a trend that high-animacy actors are more likely to be topical than low-animacy undergoers; this trend can come through even in languages with free word order, giving a statistical bias for SO order (or OS order in ergative systems; however, ergative systems do not always
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In many languages, standard word order can be subverted in order to form questions or as a means of emphasis. In languages such as O'odham and Hungarian, which are discussed below, almost all possible permutations of a sentence are grammatical, but not all of them are used. In languages such as
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SVO is both the most frequent and obligatory when case marking fails to disambiguate argument roles. Just as languages may have different word orders in different contexts, so may they have both fixed and free word orders. For example, Russian has a relatively fixed SVO word order in transitive
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The mentioned functions of word order can be seen to affect the frequencies of the various word order patterns: The vast majority of languages have an order in which S precedes O and V. Whether V precedes O or O precedes V, however, has been shown to be a very telling difference with wide
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There are some languages which have different preferred word orders in different dialects. One such case is Andean Spanish, spoken in Peru. While Spanish is classified as an SVO language, Peruvian Spanish has been influenced by Quechua and Aymara, both SOV languages. This has led to some
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Latin prose often follows the word order "Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object, Adverb, Verb", but this is more of a guideline than a rule. Adjectives in most cases go before the noun they modify, but some categories, such as those that determine or specify (e.g.
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Hammarström (2016) calculated the constituent orders of 5252 languages in two ways. His first method, counting languages directly, yielded results similar to Dryer's studies, indicating both SOV and SVO have almost equal distribution. However, when stratified by
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Fixed word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing ambiguity. One method of making the speech stream less open to ambiguity (complete removal of ambiguity is probably impossible) is a fixed order of
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studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic sub-domains are also of interest. The primary word orders that are of interest are
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Every language falls under one of the six word order types; the unfixed type is somewhat disputed in the community, as the languages where it occurs have one of the dominant word orders but every word order type is grammatically correct.
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Differences in word order complicate translation and language education – in addition to changing individual words, the order must be changed. The area of linguistics that is concerned with translation and education is
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A modern speaker of English would possibly recognise this as a grammatically comprehensible sentence, but nonetheless archaic. There are some verbs, however, that are entirely acceptable in this format:
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marker occurs at the beginning or the end of a clause as its unmarked positions but it can be put anywhere in the sentence except the preverbal position, where instead it is interpreted as interrogative
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Some languages use relatively fixed word order, often relying on the order of constituents to convey grammatical information. Other languages—often those that convey grammatical information through
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These are all possible word orders for the subject, object, and verb in the order of most common to rarest (the examples use "she" as the subject, "loves" as the verb, and "him" as the object):
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Those examples are all grammatically valid variations on the sentence "The cowboy is branding the calves," but some are rarely found in natural speech, as is discussed in Grammaticality.
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Hammarström included families with no data in his count (58 out of 424 = 13.7%), but did not include them in the list. This is why the percentages do not add up to 100% in this column.
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This flexibility continues into early Middle English, where it seems to drop out of usage. Shakespeare's plays use OV word order frequently, as can be seen from this example:
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Klee, Carol A.; Tight, Daniel G.; Caravedo, Rocio (1 December 2011). "Variation and change in Peruvian Spanish word order: language contact and dialect contact in Lima".
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of the utterance. However, also in languages of this kind there is usually a pragmatically neutral constituent order that is most commonly encountered in each language.
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The position of focus in a Hungarian sentence is immediately before the verb, that is, nothing can separate the emphatic part of the sentence from the verb.
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In Classical Latin, the endings of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns allow for extremely flexible order in most situations. Latin lacks articles.
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both trigger the same type of agreement on the verb. Indeed, many languages that some thought had a VOS word order turn out to be ergative like Mayan.
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information structure, expressing the same communicative intention of the speaker, because the part immediately preceding the verb is left unchanged.
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There are several common correlations between sentence-level word order and phrase-level constituent order. For example, SOV languages generally put
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to form questions from verbs other than auxiliaries, German has no such restriction and uses inversion to form questions, even from lexical verbs.
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usually precede the adjectives they qualify in their unmarked position, but when adverbs are constructed using the instrumental case postposition
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first-language (L1) Spanish speakers using OV word order in more sentences than would be expected. L2 speakers in Peru also use this word order.
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or focus. However, even languages with flexible word order have a preferred or basic word order, with other word orders considered "
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structure. Nonetheless, there is often a preferred order; in Latin and Turkish, SOV is the most frequent outside of poetry, and in
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This is acceptable to a modern English speaker and is not considered archaic. This is due to the verb "to be", which acts as both
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O'odham is a language that is spoken in southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico. It has free word order, with only the
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to the most common S-V-O helps the speaker to emphasise a word and hence make a nuanced change to the meaning. For example:
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Poetry and stories can use different word orders to emphasize certain aspects of the sentence. In English, this is called
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in main clauses, SVO word order being the most common. Using the guidelines above, the unmarked word order is then SVO.
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A Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics. Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses: from Latin to Old French
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Patil, Umesh; Kentner, Gerrit; Gollrad, Anja; Kügler, Frank; Fery, Caroline; Vasishth, Shravan (17 November 2008).
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Sasse, Hans-Jürgen (1993). "Das Nomen – eine universale Kategorie?" [The noun – a universal category?].
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verb when used with auxiliary and in-between the primary and the secondary verb when forming a compound verb).
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The East Indian speech community in Guyana: a sociolinguistic study with special reference to koine formation
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Languages change over time. When language change involves a shift in a language's syntax, this is called
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English and German, word order is used as a means of turning declarative into interrogative sentences:
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Most languages with a high degree of morphological marking have rather flexible word orders, such as
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Within the adpositional clause, one investigates whether the languages makes use of prepositions (
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This variation between archaic and modern can also be shown in the change between VSO to SVO in
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extend to the highest levels of animacy, sometimes giving way to an accusative system (see
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Loprieno, Antonio (2000). "From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in Coptic".
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is the order used by the largest number of distinct languages; languages using it include
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An adjective comes before the noun it modifies in its unmarked position. However, the
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Dryer, M. S. (2005). "Order of Subject, Object, and Verb". In Haspelmath, M. (ed.).
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when they provide a high degree of marking, while others (such as some varieties of
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Vasishth, Shravan (2004). "Discourse Context and Word Order Preferences in Hindi".
3004: 3000: 2800: 2731: 2558: 1377: 1091: 2462:"Martianus hæfde his sunu ær befæst" (Martianus had earlier established his son.) 1349:), or both (normally with different adpositions at both sides) either separately ( 1665:
adjectives can occur either to the left or to the right of the noun it describes.
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are investigated. Within the noun phrase, one investigates whether the following
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Hale, Kenneth L. (1992). "Basic word order in two "free word order" languages".
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have been described with the rather uncommon VOS word order. However, they are
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Branch of linguistics studying the order of a language's syntactic constituents
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Observing discourse patterns, it is found that previously given information (
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A collection of papers on word order by a leading scholar, some downloadable
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Some rules governing the position of words in a sentence are as follows:
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Dryer, Matthew S. (1992). "The Greenbergian word order correlations".
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However, a small class of adjectives generally go before their heads
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
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Some of all the possible word order permutations of the sentence "
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Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time
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Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages
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marks the direct object: 'torta' (cake) + '-t' -> 'tortát'.
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often tend to display different word order properties. Thus, a
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Rude, Noel (1992). "Word order and topicality in Nez Perce".
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Rijkhoff, Jan (November 2007). "Word Classes: Word Classes".
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author. (4 February 2020).
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Walker, Arthur T. (1918). "Some Facts of Latin Word-Order".
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The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (2004)
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sentence that carries little or no new information (theme).
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and adverbs can go either way, but initially is more common
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that we are able to identify the sentence as a question.
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to a privileged position in the sentence, the subject.
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sentence has six logically possible basic word orders:
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verb, and always follows the verb. Also the enclitic
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Here SVO is changed to OSV to emphasize the object.
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The table below displays the word order surveyed by
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Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
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(emphasis on completeness of action) ( 2930:"Linguistic diversity and language evolution" 2823:The World Atlas of Language Structures Online 2418:. Here is an example in literal translation: 2100:a você amanhã." (same word order as English) 1384:. For SVO languages, either order is common. 330: 8: 1529:One of the pieces of cake was eaten by Kate. 1387:For example, French (SVO) uses prepositions 513:(OSV) is the rarest by a significant margin. 501:the remaining three arrangements are rarer: 3507:. Cambridge University Press. p. 205. 3206:"Focus, Word Order and Intonation in Hindi" 2199:"Condidit Romam Romulus." (What happened?) 480:about half of the world's languages deploy 3473:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 3306:Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose 1692:case are marked by the same postposition " 1598:." (emphasis on completeness of action) ( 1585:A piece of cake had been finished by Kate. 1543:Kate was the one eating one piece of cake. 667:Sometimes patterns are more complex: some 337: 323: 29: 3722:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3469:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 3375: 3289: 3263:The Proceedings of the LFG '05 Conference 3260:Spencer, Andrew (2005). "Case in Hindi". 2955: 2945: 1571:Only one piece of cake was eaten by Kate. 935: 787: 2838:Basic Word Order: Functional Principles 2677:STUF - Language Typology and Universals 2600: 2580: 1220:. This is the same for both languages. 734:have no strict word order; rather, the 494:a smaller fraction of languages deploy 295: 210: 91: 39: 32: 3459: 3449: 2915:The World Atlas of Language Structures 748:organize sentences to emphasize their 3393:From OV to VO in Early Middle English 3020: 3018: 2434:"Ha-cecposid 'o g wipsilo g wakial." 2428:"Ha-cecposid 'o g wakial g wipsilo." 1125:consequences on phrasal word orders. 671:have SOV in subordinate clauses, but 7: 3687:Rijkhoff, Jan (2015). "Word Order". 3073:Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility 3027:Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility 2473:"It was our selfe thou didst abuse." 2363:" (Mark gave her only one present.) 1113:) tends to precede new information ( 738:is highly flexible and reflects the 2819:"Order of Subject, Object and Verb" 2437:"Wakial 'o ha-cecposid g wipsilo." 2431:"Wipsilo 'o g wakial ha-cecposid." 2425:"Wipsilo 'o ha-cecposid g wakial." 1600:Kate finished with a piece of cake. 1077:Functions of constituent word order 505:(VOS) is slightly more common than 3702:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.53031-1 3661:Order of Subject, Object, and Verb 3633:clearly illustrated with examples. 3210:Journal of South Asian Linguistics 25: 2773:. In Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.). 2403: 2394:", and in twenty-four ways with " 1231:. But, whereas English relies on 3596:Southwest Journal of Linguistics 3163:Gambhir, Surendra Kumar (1984). 2724:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00030.x 2712:Language and Linguistics Compass 2237:" (neutral narrating sentence.) 1516:." (same word order as English) 1243:Phrase word orders and branching 1150:'Wen liebt Kate?' / 'Kate liebt 773:Distribution of word order types 603:, among others. "She loves him." 2333:Një dhuratë (mua) Marku më dha. 2324:Një dhuratë (mua) më dha Marku. 2288:Më dha (mua) Marku një dhurate. 2279:Më dha një dhuratë Marku (mua). 2270:Më dha Marku një dhuratë (mua). 2261:Marku një dhuratë (mua) më dha. 2252:Marku një dhuratë më dha (mua). 2243:Marku (mua) më dha një dhuratë. 2234:Marku më dha një dhuratë (mua). 1569:Kati." (emphasis on number ) ( 1541:." (also emphasis on agent ) ( 1257:The order of constituents in a 389:, namely the relative order of 3364:Catalan Journal of Linguistics 2957:11858/00-001M-0000-0029-2F3E-C 2315:Një dhuratë Marku më dha (mua) 2306:Një dhuratë më dha Marku (mua) 1277:occur before and/or after the 1: 3488:Shakespeare, William (1941). 2934:Journal of Language Evolution 2766:Greenberg, Joseph H. (1963). 2654:. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2351:Mua një dhuratë më dha Marku. 2342:Mua më dha Marku një dhuratë. 2092:allow many different orders: 1707:" (क्या / کیا) "what" as the 1253:Head directionality parameter 1223:In yes–no questions such as ( 763:ergative–absolutive languages 3308:, p. 1, quoting Weil (1844). 3280:Scrivner, Olga (June 2015). 2775:Universals of Human Language 2626:Study Skills for Linguistics 2445:Other issues with word order 2369:Mua Marku më dha një dhuratë 2360:Mua Marku një dhuratë më dha 2297:Më dha një dhuratë mua Marku 1559:– cf. not a piece of bread.) 1391:and places adjectives after 1389:(dans la voiture, à gauche), 3631:Basic word order in English 2748:, Oxford University Press, 2689:10.1524/stuf.1993.46.14.187 2416:auxiliary bound to one spot 1555:." (emphasis on object ) ( 154:Ditransitive/Monotransitive 3778: 2836:Tomlin, Russel S. (1986). 2817:Dryer, Matthew S. (2013). 2407: 2219: 2178: 2077: 1622: 1527:." (emphasis on agent ) ( 1505:", the possibilities are: 1484: 1246: 1227:), English and German use 1166:'Liebt Kate Mark?' (VSO) 1132: 3565:. 2003. pp. 91–142. 3237:10.1515/9783110179897.113 2783:10.1515/9781503623217-005 2629:. Routledge. p. 61. 1557:Kate ate a piece of cake 746:Topic-prominent languages 3057:Comrie, Bernard (1981). 2928:Hammarström, H. (2016). 2650:Hengeveld, Kees (1992). 2623:Sakel, Jeanette (2015). 1393:(une voiture spacieuse). 619:Insular Celtic languages 404:the order of modifiers ( 3757:Syntactic relationships 3718:Song, Jae Jung (2012), 3571:10.4324/9780203426531-7 3503:Crystal, David (2012). 3104:Kachru, Yamuna (2006). 1357:) or at the same time ( 1249:Branching (linguistics) 1216:) simply by restating: 1129:Semantics of word order 518:Constituent word orders 3538:10.1075/cilt.213.05lop 3490:Much Ado about Nothing 3391:Trips, Carola (2002). 3284:(Thesis). p. 32. 3134:Mohanan, Tara (1994). 2840:. London: Croom Helm. 2744:Rijkhoff, Jan (2004), 2652:Non-verbal predication 2523:. 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Index

Free word order
Linguistic typology
Morphological
Analytic
Isolating
Synthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Polysynthetic
Oligosynthetic
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Nominative–accusative
Marked nominative
Ergative–absolutive
Split ergative
Symmetrical voice
Active–stative
Tripartite
Nominative–absolutive
Direct-inverse
Ditransitive/Monotransitive
Secundative
Indirective
Zero-marking
Dependent-marking
Double-marking
Head-marking
Null-subject
Syntactic pivot

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