Do all languages have the subordinate clause next to the …
Sep 12, 2020 · 1 There are example languages for almost all the possible orderings of subject, verb and object in a simple sentence, with the order of frequency being: SOV > SVO > VSO > …
On the change of word order as languages develop?
Jan 3, 2022 · While I understand the most common changes in word order, the whole SOV can go to OSV, SVO, and OVS, and so forth. But I do not exactly understand how and why word order …
how do SOV langues mark Subject? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Dec 31, 2016 · I'm making a conlang and right now it is SVO. I want to make it more in line with an SOV language. Currently Nominatives are unmarked while only 1 Accusatives is marked in …
morphology - In what ways does English syntax compensate for its …
Some research into the word order in German tells me that German word order is different from English, but still fixed. So the issue is probably that they simply aren't familiar with English's …
Split a sentence using nltk and python - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2016 · ray points in the direction of energy flow. The only condition being, each simple form must in SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) format. For example for sentence ray is an idealized …
Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?
This leads to results like "This language has an iambic stress pattern," "The basic word order in this language is SVO," or "This language has twenty demonstrative pronouns, distinguished by …
syntax - How can we account for head-final PPs and VPs in …
Jun 28, 2015 · According to Koopman (1983), there is an explanation for why Chinese, despite being a head-final language, has SVO and prepositional features. She suggested that Chinese …
Origin of current order pattern in English/German
I remember reading on German.SE--I don't remember which thread--that weil had SVO order in some pockets of regional German for a long while that's easy to believe in face of the …
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, …
Which languages have Subject-object agreement in relative clauses?
It is an SVO language. Menin okugan kitabim I-Gen read-rel.suf. book-1st persn "The book that I read" Are there other languages that show an agreement of subject with object, but not with …