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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages? In this Wikipedia article, French, Italian and Spanish are listed as SVO languages, along with English and Chinese (However, Latin is listed as SOV ) I am highly confused about such statement In
Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange 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 they drop the pronoun? The answer is that they have rich verbal morphology This is the only answer given in the literature
Why are Latin descendants SVO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange Latin was a language which predominant order was Subject-Object-Verb, as in the example proverb Errare Humanum Est So, why all its modern descendents are predominantly Subject-Verb-Object order? O
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, 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
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural for . . . Languages do not have an SVO word order usually have an alternative SVO word order (Greenberg, 1963) The word order of languages change because the alternative order is used more and more frequently and finally the alternative order becomes the dominant order This happened in Arabic, Romance languages and Germanic languages
Ease of L2 acquisition of SOV and SVO VSO word order 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
What grammatical features do SOV languages often share? For instance, if a language doesn't indicate case, it'll be forced into a verb-medial order (SVO or OVS) to differentiate subject from object What I'm finding annoying is I can't find anything like this for verb-final languages