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Summary Of: Word order
Most languages however have some preferred word order which is used most frequently... it is possible to define a basic word order in terms of the finite verb... the basic word order is defined as... have SOV normal word order but conform less to the general tendencies of other such languages... SVO word order being the most common... the unmarked word order is then SVO... Russian has a relatively fixed SVO word order in transitive clauses... A fixed or prototypical word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing... Fixed word order reduces expressiveness but added marking increases information load in the speech stream... and for these reasons strict word order seldom coocurs with strict morphological marking... The mentioned functions of word order can be seen to affect the frequencies of the various word order patterns... Knowledge of word order on the other hand can be applied to identify the... since very strict word order is rare in practice... such applications of word order studies are rarely effective... however there are also languages in which word order is fixed even though the degree of marking would enable free word order... changes in word order occur due to topicalization or in questions... A collection of papers on word order by a leading scholar... this is the authoritative introduction to word order and related subjects... A basic overview of word order variations across languages... Encyclodia Page On: Word order
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