word order
Sign in to savestudy of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders
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- Field
- linguistics
- Origin
- Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
- Key people
- Bernard Comrie
- Purpose
- Studying and classifying language samples and languages by the ordering of grammatical elements
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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. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic sub-domains are also of interest.
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topic–comment
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pronoun
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Mayan
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adposition
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synthetic language
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subject–verb–object
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clitic
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subject–object–verb
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verb–subject–object
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argument
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verb–object–subject
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object–verb–subject
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object–subject–verb
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O'odham
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ditransitive verb
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topicalization
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English language
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Spanish
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language
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Russian
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