• 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...
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  • subordinate clauses, but V2 word order in main clauses, SVO word order being the most common. Using the guidelines above, the unmarked word order is then SVO. Many...
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  • word order Object–subject–verb word order Object–verb–subject word order Verb–object–subject word order Verb–subject–object word order V2 word order...
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  • Cortex V2 word order, the verb-second word order of Germanic languages and other languages Velocity 2 (V2 speed), aircraft safe-takeoff speed V2, one of...
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  • affected by V2, and also appears at the end of the sentence, resulting in full SOV order: "Ich sage, dass Karl einen Gürtel gekauft hat." (Word-for-word: "I say...
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  • Dutch, as well as French, Finnish, Maká, and Emilian. In languages with V2 word order, such as most Germanic languages except for Modern English, as well...
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    Subject–auxiliary inversion (category Word order)
    of the V2 pattern that formerly existed in English as it still does in its related languages. Old English followed a consistent V2 word order. Syntactic...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • multiple morphemes concatenated together, but in such a manner that individual word stems and affixes can be isolated and identified as to indicate a particular...
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  • many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly. Syntactic roles are assigned to words primarily by word order. For example, by changing the...
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  • 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:...
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  • pronoun, or phrase containing one). English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2) word order to being almost exclusively subject–verb–object...
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  • English, uses V2 word order, though only in independent clauses. In dependent clauses, the finite verb is placed last. Declarative sentences use V2 (verb in...
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  • language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme...
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  • appear. Word order in Afrikaans follows broadly the same rules as in Dutch: in main clauses, the finite verb appears in "second position" (V2 word order), while...
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  • affix for each feature. Another illustration of fusionality is the Latin word bonus ("good"). The ending -us denotes masculine gender, nominative case...
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  • 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...
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    V2 word order. This makes Dutch word order almost identical to that of German, but often different from English, which has subject–verb–object word order...
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  • 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...
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  • Barrier Islands, a popular summer resort area. Only after the earthquake had taken place did the lack of safety measures become obvious. V2 word order...
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    passive voice and progressive aspect. English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2) word order to being almost exclusively subject–verb–object...
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    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...
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  • sentence structure is similar to other Germanic languages in its use of V2 word order. Standard German phonology Durrell & Hammer 2002, pp. 1–10. Marian,...
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  • Swedish grammar (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
    word order. Swedish uses some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is generally a subject–verb–object (SVO) language with V2 word order....
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  • more on auxiliary verbs and word order to denote syntactic relationship between the words. Adding morphemes to a root word is used in inflection to convey...
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  • wh-word across the matrix clauses (a-trees) and the embedded clauses (b-trees) captures the difference in word order. Matrix wh-clauses have V2 word order...
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    However, Breton finite verbs in main clauses are additionally subject to V2 word order in which the finite main clause verb is typically the second element...
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    non-exhaustively included the use in upper-class speech and higher registers of V2 word order, a large percentage of the vocabulary (now at around 15% of modern French...
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  • languages contain very little inflection, instead relying on features like word order and auxiliary words to convey meaning. Synthetic languages, ones that...
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