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 such …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural for ...
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 languages with verb …
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 pronoun …
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 languages …
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?
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 this.
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-Verb-Object …
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 weak common word …
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 one.
SVO and SOV peoples? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Linguistics would be a better cite also because you may need to evaluate the degree of dominancy of the word order in these languages. Its unlikely that the split happen overnight, and the degree of …