A secundative language is a language in which the recipients of ditransitive verbs (which takes a subject and two objects: a theme and a recipient) are...

different languages equate the other arguments in different ways:[citation needed] Indirective languages: D = A, T = P, with a third case for R Secundative languages:...

Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single...

than the other; these may be called "inner" and "outer" objects. Secundative languages lack a distinction between direct and indirect objects, but rather...

agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. In an agglutinative language, words contain...

A synthetic language is a language that is statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio. Rule-wise, a synthetic language is characterized...

An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme...

linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of...

object (such as "me" or "her" in English). Languages with active–stative alignment are often called active languages. The case or agreement of the intransitive...

An analytic language is a type of natural language in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles and modifiers...

object has been left in place. (In this respect, English resembles secundative languages.) It is normally only the first-appearing object that can be promoted;...

A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically...

the world's languages (including English). Languages with nominative–accusative alignment are commonly called nominative–accusative languages. A transitive...

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 compose...

The definition of a direct–inverse language is a matter under research in linguistic typology, but it is widely understood to involve different grammar...

in Korean. Dative Case role Argument structure Object (grammar) Secundative language Payne, Thomas (2010). Understanding English Grammar. Cambridge University...

object. About 53% of documented languages have this order. For example, Japanese would be considered an OV language, and English would be considered...

Tibetan, and certain Indo-European languages (such as Pashto and the Kurdish languages and many Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi–Urdu). It has also been...

grammatical system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of...

most languages, it does occur as the unmarked or neutral order in a few Amazonian languages, including Xavante and Apurinã. In many other languages, OSV...

In linguistic typology, a null-subject language is a language whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject; such a clause is...

Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see linguistic typology) that groups languages according to their common morphological...

Mesoamerican languages, such as the Mayan languages and Oto-Manguean languages many Nilotic languages (including Nandi and Maasai) Many languages, such as...

constructions are used vary among different languages. Nominative–accusative languages (including European languages, with the notable exception of Basque)...

typically observed in a subset of the clause types of a given language (that is, the languages which have nominative–absolutive clauses also have clauses...

within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with...

Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow...

nominative–accusative alignment. In a prototypical nominative–accusative language with a grammatical case system like Latin, the object of a verb is marked...

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...

Secundative Indirective Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object...