linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may...

typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English...

linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam...

typology, object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in unmarked...

In linguistic typology, object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates...

In linguistic typology, a verb–object–subject or verb–object–agent language, which is commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA, is one in which most sentences arrange...

primary word orders that are of interest are the constituent order of a clause, namely the relative order of subject, object, and verb; the order of modifiers...

Verb–object word order (VO) is a word order where the verb typically comes before the object. About 53% of documented languages have this order. For example...

OV language (object–verb language), or a language with object-verb word order, is a language in which the object comes before the verb. OV languages...

 object–subject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before the subject. OS...