Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
2019年2月6日 · 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.
SVO and SOV peoples? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Its unlikely that the split happen overnight, and the degree of dominancy of SVO over SOV may help to estimate when particular languages started to show a preference. I cannot speak of many languages, but just comparing fairly rigid English with very flexible Russian is enough to see that word order preference is not equally honored among PIE ...
syntax - Why do dominant VSO languages all have SVO as an …
2023年11月21日 · 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.
Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
2020年5月21日 · You’re asking why Spanish is svo though it’s a pro-drop language. Less obvious why is also with Italian. But there’s no answer for such a question. 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 (Arabic).
Why are Latin descendants SVO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
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.
How VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) works - Linguistics Stack Exchange
2018年9月20日 · 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.
Ease of L2 acquisition of SOV and SVO/VSO word order
2019年7月10日 · @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.
Languages with stricter and less strict word order?
Although the language is nominally SVO, any word order is allowed, depending on the kind of focus the speaker wants to give and the elements used. And like Spanish and Italian, it is pro-drop, and allows one not to show an overt subject, as it is already indicated in the verb. Word order in the noun phrase is slightly stricter, but even there ...
What grammatical features do SOV languages often share?
2018年2月11日 · 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.
What are the general word order trends of VO languages
2023年11月26日 · Lehmann (March 1973) proposed that SVO, VSO, and VOS are all part of a broader VO category. I forget where I read this, but this may be an over generalization, despite their similarities. I want to know what the similarities are. –