Feb 6, 2019 · 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 simplistic categorizations of entire languages as "SVO" vs. "SOV" etc. has to be based on some particular subset of clauses in the language in cases like that.

Nov 21, 2023 · Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic are all exclusively VSO, and SVO is only sorta-kinda possible in cleft sentences (if you ignore the initial copula and the relativiser). Welsh was originally the same, but cleft constructions have more or less become the default word order, so it does have SVO tendencies now.

The premise holds for most Romance languages but it is difficult to categorize Spanish (the largest latin language by number of speakers) as an SVO language. The earliest texts in medieval Spanish were all VSO and I, as a native Spanish speaker, tend to use VSO sentences slightly more often than SVO.

Feb 11, 2018 · I don't think it's true that "if a language doesn't indicate case, it'll be forced into a verb-medial order (SVO or OVS) to differentiate subject from object." If a language has strict SOV or VSO word order, for example, the identity of the subject will be unambiguous even without differential marking of the subject and the object.

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?

Sep 20, 2018 · But the adjectives added to my friend made it shift part of the structure to before the verb, so it is almost like SVO form. This is the behavior I found for most of the other languages. For example, with Welsh: I went to the store. Es i i'r siop. Literally: Went I the store. My friend and I went to the store. Aeth fy ffrind a minnau i'r siop.

Jul 10, 2019 · @jlawler on the other hand, there might be more internal diversity within the SVO languages because they’re easier to learn and therefore less constrained. 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 one.

Nov 2, 2021 · I know the slogan that it treats every language as underlyingly SVO and derives other surface orders through movement. I don't understand why the conditions imposed on nodes that asymmetrically c-command each other leads to SVO linear order. I'm not even sure why the Linear Correspondence Axiom produces a unique order of terminal symbols. More ...

Since the non-SVO orders are all "pragmatically marked," they are treated as non-dominant orders, and the language is treated as being SVO-dominant. Like a main clause/subordinate clause split, word order changes conditioned by a polarity split also do not appear to cause a language to be treated as lacking a dominant order.

Nov 3, 2011 · Languages form clusters where the basic constituent order is the same, regardless of their genetic affiliation. Although the region containing India and Southeast Asia contains a rather large number of language families, the area can be divided into two contiguous zones where the word order is the same: SOV in India, SVO in SE Asia.