Order of subject, object, and verb

By Magnus Huber, M. Meeuwis. 2013

431 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• Linguistic diversity and language evolution (2016, background): “Most languages have a specific ‘neutral’ order, such as English AVP ‘the dog kills the cat’, while other languages allow alternative orders depending on, for example, the tense, while yet others allow any order4 (see Dryer 2005 for a more detailed definition).”
• MURI: High-Quality Instruction Tuning Datasets for Low-Resource Languages via Reverse Instructions (2024, unknown): “Focusing on the order of subject, verb, and object, Figure 3.c shows that while European SVO languages pre-dominate (Dryer, 2013) and there are no rare OVS and OSV languages, all frequent patterns are represented.”