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 …
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 …
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 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?
SVO and SOV peoples? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Linguistics would be a better cite also because you may need to evaluate the degree of dominancy of the word order in these languages. Its unlikely that the split happen overnight, …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural …
Aug 3, 2024 · Languages do not have an SVO word order usually have an alternative SVO word order (Greenberg, 1963). The word order of languages change because the alternative order …
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 …
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 …
What grammatical features do SOV languages often share?
Feb 11, 2018 · For instance, if a language doesn't indicate case, it'll be forced into a verb-medial order (SVO or OVS) to differentiate subject from object. What I'm finding annoying is I can't …