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...

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...

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...

object–agent–verb (OAV) word order is a structure where the object of a sentence precedes both the subject and the verb. Although this word order is rarely found...

unusual word order is not used for emphasis). English is included in this group. An example is "Sam ate apples." 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;...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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:...

word order, by prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open classes – word classes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nominative–accusative alignment can be coded by case-marking, verb agreement and/or word order. It has a wide global distribution and is the most common alignment system...

many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly. Syntactic roles are assigned to words primarily by word order. For example, by changing the...

'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...

the crews of English coal ships. Errors occur mainly in pronunciation, word order, and the meaning of words, so-called false friends and false cognates...

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...

spoken Maldivian. In using ve a strict word order also has to be maintained, but in spoken Maldivian word order is not considered to be very rigid. One...

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