Subject–object–verb

In linguistic typology are SOV languages ​​( subject-object - verb) those languages ​​in which default subject, object and verb occur in this order in the set position. In German SOV occurs in subordinate clauses on ( " When Peter ate the apple, ..." ).

Under natural languages ​​SOV is the most common type, including Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Persian, Latin, Quechua, Burmese and a large part of the Indian languages ​​, regardless of their language family. SOV is the most common form in agglutinative languages ​​.

SOV languages ​​set in most cases adjectives before the noun, use postpositions rather than prepositions, relative clauses put before the noun to which they refer, and set auxiliary verbs behind the Tätigkeitsverb. They tend to order time - way - place in Präpositionalsätzen. Some also have special particles to mark subject and object, including Japanese and Korean.

French and Spanish are SVO, but switch to SOV when a pronoun is used as a direct or indirect object. From " Sam a mangé of oranges" or " Sam comió naranjas " will, " Sam les a mangées " (with Accord you Participe passé ) or " Sam read comió ".

Latin as inflectional language, like many other inflectional languages ​​, a very flexible word order, but the most common was SOV. An example is the phrase " servus puellam amat ", translated " The slave loves the girl ." In this sentence, servus is the subject, puellam the object and the verb amat

Object-subject - verb | object - verb-subject | Subject-Object -Verb | Subject-Verb - Object | verb-object -subject | verb-subject - object

• Syntax
• Linguistic typology