Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
Feb 6, 2019 · In this Wikipedia article, French, Italian and Spanish are listed as SVO languages, along with English and Chinese. (However, Latin is listed as SOV.) I am highly confused about …
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 …
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 …
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 common is word order change? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Examples include Latin (SOV) that changed to SVO in the Romance languages, Proto-Austronesian (verb initial) that changed to SVO in most modern Austronesian languages, and …