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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 cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders.
The most common basic word order in the world is Subject-Object-Verb; this is found in 41% of languages, according to Dryer (2013). Japanese and Korean are both SOV languages, as are Turkish, Farsi, Hindi-Urdu, Malayalam, Amharic, and Haida.
This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based theories.
Sep 10, 2009 · This work provides an overview of recent word order research carried out within the broad framework of linguistic typology, highlighting some of the major word order patterns, and theories that have been proposed to explain them.
- Jae Jung Song
- 10 September 2009
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- 3, Issue5
This article explains how basic word order is determined in linguistic typology. The concept of basic word order is irrelevant to flexible-word-order languages. Hawkins highlights the importance and role of exceptionless universals in constructing a theory of basic word order.
It explains word-order patterns in different languages and at different structural levels, and critically evaluates (and, where possible, compares) the theoretical assumptions and word-order principles used in the
Mar 18, 2024 · English is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO). This is one of the most common word orders in the world’s languages, found in about 35.5% of languages (Dryer, 2013). Other languages with this basic word order include most of the Romance languages, ASL, both Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nahuatl.
