word order
Sign in to savestudy of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders
Key facts
- Field
- linguistics
- Origin
- Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
- Key people
- Bernard Comrie
- Purpose
- Studying and classifying language samples and languages by the ordering of grammatical elements
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- criterion
- Subclass of
- grammatical construction
- Has part
- object–verb–subject
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- topic's main category
- Category:Word order
- Commons category
- Word order
- topic has template
- Template:Language word order frequency
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Encyclopedic overview
In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic sub-domains are also of interest.
Order types
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