Word and Object is a 1960 work by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands upon the line of thought of his earlier writings...

linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified...

Among natural languages with a word order preference, SOV is the most common type (followed by subject–verb–object; the two types account for more than...

In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges...

remarkably lax word order and so emphasis on the object is often marked simply by putting it first in the sentence. The word by word translation in example...

the subject (S), and object (O). Subject and object are here understood to be nouns, since pronouns often tend to display different word order properties...

linguistic typology, object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in...

nominative case, and the object (the lesson) uses an accusative case. Baure is an Arawakan language that also follows verb-initial word order. One of Baure's...

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...

linguistics, 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...

of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms". Cognition. 38 (2): 179–211. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(91)90051-5. Heaney, Seamus (2006). District and Circle...

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...

term "subject" is ambiguous, and thus the term "agent" is often used instead to contrast with "object", such that basic word order is often spoken of in...

to use an object and can correctly select the target object from a group of objects, and yet cannot name the object. Some patients with word selection...

20th century analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine in his book Word and Object. The main claim of this theory is that any given sentence can be changed...

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems...

2022-10-09. pages 218 and 225, and elsewhere in Quine, Willard Van Orman (2013) [1960 print]. "7 Ontic Decision". Word and Object. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

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...

blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more...

the word object is derived from the Latin objectus (p.p. of obicere) with the meaning "to throw, or put before or against", from ob-, "against", and the...

attributed to Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. "Eureka" comes from the Ancient Greek word εὕρηκα heúrēka, meaning "I have found (it)"...

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...

the early Anglo-analytic philosophers of language. W. V. O. Quine in Word and Object, originally published in 1960, attacked the notion of our concepts...

which advocates a kind of coherentism, and Word and Object (1960), which further developed these positions and introduced Quine's famous indeterminacy...

an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a...

references to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-Word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. In an...

Quine's Word and Object (1960): When a singular term is used in a sentence purely to specify its object, and the sentence is true of the object, then certainly...

finite and non-finite forms. The word which participated in inversion was the finite verb; the verb which retained its position relative to the object was...

join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. Son-in-law is an example of a hyphenated word. The hyphen...

The object referred to is called the referent of the word. Sometimes the word-object relation is called "denotation"; the word denotes the object. The...