Word order

Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for). The most common adpositions are prepositions (which precede their complement) and postpositions (which follow their complement).

study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders

sentence structure where the subject comes 1st, the verb 2nd, the object 3rd (e.g. “I ate a pie”); the default word order in English as well as Cantonese, French, Hausa, Italian, Malay, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, etc.

language in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence appear or usually appear in SOV order

one in which the most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in “Ate Sam oranges” (Sam ate oranges); the 3rd-most common word order among the world's languages, after SVO and SOV

word order as in “ate apple Sam“; the 4th most common word order (after SOV, SVO, VSO); occurs as default word order in some Austronesian languages (such as Malagasy, Old Javanese, Toba Batak, Dusun and Fijian) and Mayan languages (such as Tzotzil)

terms describing sentence structure in linguistics

rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in unmarked expressions

linguistic typology describing languages with this characteristic sentence order.

grammatical construction where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance

Hyperbaton , in its original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. In modern usage, the term is also used more generally for figures of speech that transpose sentences' natural word order, which is also called anastrophe.

word order common in Germanic languages in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position

Anastrophe (from the , anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.

Tmesis is either the dividing of a word into two parts, with another word inserted between those parts, thus forming a compound word, or, in a broader sense, a set phrase, such as a phrasal verb, with one or more words interpolated within, thus creating a separate phrase.

figure of speech reversing a natural or rational order

complex sentence that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence

language in which the verb typically comes before the object

Topicalization is a mechanism of syntax that establishes an expression as the sentence or clause topic by having it appear at the front of the sentence or clause (as opposed to in a canonical position later in the sentence). This involves a phrasal movement of determiners, prepositions, and verbs to sentence-initial position. Topicalization often results in a discontinuity and is thus one of a number of established discontinuity types, the other three being wh-fronting, scrambling, and extraposition. Topicalization is also used as a constituency test; an expression that can be topicalized is d

In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and the object position of doing in "What are you doing?". Interrogative forms are sometimes known within English linguistics as wh-words, such as what, when, where, who, and why, but also include other interrogative words, such as how. This dependency has been used as a diagnostic tool in syntactic studies as it can be observed to interact with other grammatical constraints.

English grammatical construction in which a word or phrase (usually adverb or adverbial phrase) comes between the to and the bare infinitive of the to form of the infinitive verb; e.g. “to boldly go”; “to more than double”

pragmatic word order

generative grammar parameter, covers order of (verb,subject,object) as well as of (noun,adjective)

linguistic theory

unit of syntax and morphology

languages which place objects before verbs

Synchysis is a rhetorical technique wherein words are intentionally scattered to create bewilderment, or for some other purpose. By disrupting the normal course of a sentence, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of the words and the relationship between them.