Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
Feb 6, 2019 · 29 French, Spanish and Italian use SVO in clauses with non-pronominal arguments. Many languages make use of more than one kind of word order; the "canonical" order used in …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural …
Aug 3, 2024 · As far as I can tell, they were exposed to SVO languages only (from different families) during the language acquisition phase. Furthermore, if I believe Wikipedia, the …
syntax - Why do dominant VSO languages all have SVO as an …
Nov 21, 2023 · According to Greenberg’s 6th universal, "All languages with dominant VSO order have SVO as an alternative or as the only alternative basic order." Why are dominant VSO …
Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
May 21, 2020 · Some languages fix SVO other fix VSO word order during acquisition.. some fix SVO and pro-drop (spanish/italian) some don’t (english).. even some VSO languages drop the …
Why are Latin descendants SVO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Latin was a language which predominant order was Subject-Object-Verb, as in the example proverb Errare Humanum Est So, why all its modern descendents are predominantly Subject …
How to extract Subject-Verb-Object from a sentence?
Oct 20, 2020 · Given a corpus of sentences, is there a way to extract subject-verb-object triplets? What is the state-of-art in detecting SVO triplets?
Ease of L2 acquisition of SOV and SVO/VSO word order
Jul 10, 2019 · Contact languages and creoles tend to be SVO and they’ve gone through a real life L2-bottleneck of sorts. I can think of arguments for both learnability directions being the easier …
linguistic typology - Are there any subject-verb-object languages …
Mar 2, 2025 · In Classical Chinese (an SVO language), the particle "也" is often used after the predicate, especially noun predicates. Usually there are no overt copula expressed other than …
What are the general word order trends of VO languages
Nov 26, 2023 · I’ve heard that some scholars collapse SVO, VSO, and VOS into one general category of VO. From what I understand, these VO languages allegedly exhibit strong and …
How VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) works - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Sep 20, 2018 · English may be generally considered an "SVO" language, but that doesn't stop us from forming rule-governed expressions which flout the word order, or using certain set …