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| | Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | An example of a typological classification is the classification of languages on the basis of the basic order of the verb, the subject and the object in a sentence into several types: SVO, SOV, VSO, and so on, languages. | | | For example, one prominent artificial language, Esperanto, was created by L. | | | Mathematics and computer science use artificial entities called formal languages (including programming languages and markup languages, but also some that are far more theoretical in nature). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
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| | Rotokas language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | In linguistic typology, subject object verb (sov) is the general order of words in a languages sentences: "sam oranges ate".... | | | The rosetta project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic rosetta stone... | | | As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/r/ro/rotokas_language.htm
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| | LangX - A NEW TEMPLATE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL AUXILIARY LANGUAGE - Grammar |
| | The subsequent success of the English language is not unconnected from the fact that SVO syntax far outstrips SOV in global population terms, though each is used by about 40% of all languages. | | | Some languages are more advanced than others in terms of economical expression or succinct syntax. | | | In days when education was highly selective, an ability to cope with classical languages and synthetic grammar was par for the course. |
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http://bahai-library.com/books/lango/lang03.html
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| | Japan Reference - Language : Japanese Grammar |
| | Grammatically, Japanese is an SOV language, with verbs rigidly constrained to the sentence-final position. | | | Thus, Japanese is a left-branching language; to contrast, English is right-branching. | | | The uses of the reflexive pronoun in the two languages are very different. |
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http://www.jref.com/language/japanese_grammar.shtml
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| | The Ultimate Navajo language - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | Athabaskan words are modified primarily by prefixes, which is unusual for an SOV language (suffixes are expected). | | | (this patterning is common in the world's languages as a true voiceless l is harder to perceive) | | | The Navajo language: A grammar and colloquial dictionary (rev. ed.). |
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http://www.historymania.com/american_history/Navajo_language
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| | Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan & Karin Stromswold |
| | The nominative case is null and the accusative case is overt but it can also be dropped in which case there are only two possible word-orders, SOV and OVS. | | | This study investigates whether young Turkish speaking children treat Turkish as a non configurational free word-order language or whether they are initially predisposed to prefer certain word orders that are structured hierarchically. | | | It is an agglutinative language with rich case morphology. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc23/batm-stro.html
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| | JAPANESE AND THE MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE |
| | The phonology is particularly straightforward, the syntax (the SOV order, the range of word-classes, of verbal forms and of function words) is in the mainstream of world languages. | | | Japanese is a thoroughly systematic SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) language. | | | To summarise: if the Japanese language could conclusively be shown to be an isolated language totally different from other languages and to have phonological, lexical or syntactic features without parallel in other languages, then this would be incompatible with the account given by the motor theory of the origin and functioning of language. |
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http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/japanese.htm
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| | Akkadian language - Psychology Central |
| | Akkadian sentence order was Subject+Object+Verb (SOV), which sets it apart from most other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, which typically have a Verb-subject-object (VSO) word order. | | | (Modern South Semitic languages in Ethiopia also have SOV order, but these developed within historical times from the classical SVO language Geez.) It has been hypothesized that this word order was a result of influence from the Sumerian language, which was also SOV. | | | {{Infobox Language name=Akkadian nativename=lišānum akkadītum states=Assyria and Babylonia region=Mesopotamia extinct=100 CE familycolor=Afro-Asiatic fam2=Semitic fam3=East Semitic iso2=akkiso3=akk map=Image:GilgameshTablet.jpg}} |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Akkadian_language
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| | AMO · Afrikanistische Monographien |
| | It is shown that all Niger-Congo languages belong to either of two types: a) SVO languages without an inherent tendency to develop SOV structures, and b) SVO languages that exhibit different degrees of an emerging SOV syntax. | | | There are only a few languages where periphrastic aspects and tenses have been grammaticalized to such an extent that those languages nowadays have to be classified as possessing a basic order SOV. | | | It is the first attempt to present not only the synchronic structure and functions of a language but rather to reconstruct, on the basis of its synchronic morphosyntax, the various grammaticalization processes which make up the actual shape of the language. |
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http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/publikationen/amo.shtml
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| | Linguistics Principles: Language Parts (Syntax) |
| | There are six types of language syntax: subject-verb-object, subject-object-verb, object-subject-verb, object-verb-subject, verb-subject-object, and verb-object-subject (abbreviated SVO, SOV, OSV, OVS, VSO, and VOS), with the most frequent being SVO, VSO, and SOV. | | | In OV languages (SOV, OSV, and OVS), most of which are SOV, like Japanese, auxiliary verbs tend to follow the verb, adverbs tend to precede the verb, and there are post-positions instead of prepositions. | | | If an object is not present, by our innate knowledge of the language we know that the object of the sentence is the same as the subject of the sentence. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1470/chap-2-4-2.html
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| | User talk:Belgian man - Wikipedia |
| | Sonsorol A language of Palau ISO/DIS 639-3: sov Population 600 in Palau (1981 Wurm and Hattori). | | | Tobian A language of Palau ISO/DIS 639-3: tox Population 22 (1995 SIL). | | | Whoever this anonymous user is: there is no such language as Nauri - at least not one spoken on Nauru. |
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http://na.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Belgian_man
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| | PL PHONEMES IN IE AND ALTAIC |
| | SOV is the earliest Altaic word-order, corresponding to SOV established by W. Lehmann for IE; SOV word-order stems from the earliest syntax of the Proto -Language, in which the transitive subject is only loosely linked to the object-verb, which is primary; this is proved by the invariable rectum-regens word order of Altaic (except Northern Tungus). | | | The purpose of this short essay is to establish as a hypothesis that IE and Altaic are both descended from a common ancestor, which, I term the Proto -Language--- from the form into which it had developed by about 60-40K BPE. | | | In the Table of Correspondence found after the listing of lexical cognates below, the column entitled PROTO- LANGUAGE shows the earliest syllables before vocalic contrasts were replaced by a contrast of glides and no glide (during the Pontic stage: 60-40K BPE). |
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http://www.mega.nu:8080/protolanguage/comparison.ALTAIC.8.htm
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| | Languge death |
| | Since almost all Semitic languages have a basic VSO word order, the SOV structure of Akkadian has almost universally been attributed to the substrate influence of Sumerian, and is cited as evidence for a long period of co-existence of the two languages, if not for a prolonged period of bilingualism in Sumer. | | | Even when a language belongs to an extensive family, the issues of how to identify a "language" and the moment of its very beginning an imposing if not an impossible task (Seebold 1996); to speculate about the origins and prehistories of ancient isolates may be somewhat foolhardy. | | | More interestingly, however, one could claim that the two languages were intermingled; the main protocol of the juridical proceedings was redacted in Sumerian, and the testimony of the main witness, registered as direct speech, was written down in the language in which it was given, that is in Akkadian. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/DIGLOS~1.htm
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | Burmese is an SOV language, or more precisely a verb-final language, which essentially means that the (main) verb- usually followed by one or more particles with grammatical as well as discourse functions - occupies the final position in the sentence or clause. | | | Burmese, along with Tibetan, the dominant language of Tibet, is one of the two most important languages of the Tibeto-Burman branch, which includes an undetermined number of smaller languages spoken in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, northern and western Thailand, and the Yunnan and Sichuan (Szechwan) provinces of China (Ehrhardt, 1998). | | | Burmese or Myanmar language is the official national language of the Union of Myanmar, previously known as Burma. |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=72&menu=004
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | Burmese is an SOV language, or more precisely a verb-final language, which essentially means that the (main) verb - usually followed by one or more particles with grammatical as well as discourse functions - occupies the final position in the sentence or clause. | | | Burmese has since been the language of instruction throughout the formal education: from kindergarten to higher education. | | | The issue of dialects as variants of standard language is controversial for Burmese as in most cases regarding dialect issues: in Burmese all these "dialects" are considered "languages" [za-gà ], just like Burmese za-gà , or other "languages" spoken by different ethnic minorities. |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=72
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| | Japanese: Introduction: About the Japanese language - Wikibooks |
| | Japanese is typically classified as an SOV (Subject Object Verb) language, whereas English is an SVO (Subject Verb Object) language. | | | The word "club", as it is borrowed from English, will typically be written in katakana asクラブ, however the kanji倶楽部 kurabu will also sometimes be used. | | | Nihongo (日本語), or Japanese, is a language spoken by 127 million people in Japan, located in East Asia. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese:_About_the_Japanese_language
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | Burmese is an SOV language, or more precisely a verb-final language, which essentially means that the (main) verb - usually followed by one or more particles with grammatical as well as discourse functions - occupies the final position in the sentence or clause. | | | Burmese has since been the language of instruction throughout the formal education: from kindergarten to higher education. | | | The issue of dialects as variants of standard language is controversial for Burmese as in most cases regarding dialect issues: in Burmese all these "dialects" are considered "languages" [za-gà ], just like Burmese za-gà , or other "languages" spoken by different ethnic minorities. |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=72
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| | Tlingit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is characterizable as a SOV language, although some have argued that it is possibly OSV. | | | The Tlingit language is distributed from near the mouth of the Copper River down the open coast of the Gulf of Alaska and throughout almost all of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. | | | The language appears to have spread northward from the Ketchikan–Saxman area towards the Chilkat region, since certain conservative features are reduced gradually from south to north. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language
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| | Korean language |
| | Korean is often classified as being a separate language in a family of its own (a language isolate). | | | The Korean language was originally written using "Hanja", or Chinese characters; it is now mainly written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, optionally mixing in Hanja to write Sino-Korean words. | | | Korean is agglutinative in its word formation and SOV in its syntax. |
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http://hallencyclopedia.com/Korean_language
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| | South Caucasian languages : South caucasian languages |
| | While the South Caucasian languages share SOV word order with Basque, as well as an ergative case, the application of the ergative is somewhat different between the two families. | | | Too many listeners were nigh; The language of her speaking eye. | | | The South Caucasian languages or Kartvelian languages are a family of languages, spoken mainly in Georgia |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/so/south-caucasian-languages.html
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| | Akkadian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Akkadian sentence order was Subject+Object+Verb (SOV), which sets it apart from most other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, which typically have a Verb-subject-object (VSO) word order. | | | Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians. | | | Akkadian is an inflected language, and as a Semitic language its grammatical features are highly similar to those found in Classical Arabic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language
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| | South Caucasian languages : South caucasian languages |
| | While the South Caucasian languages share SOV word order with Basque, as well as an ergative case, the application of the ergative is somewhat different between the two families. | | | The South Caucasian languages or Kartvelian languages are a family of languages, spoken mainly in Georgia | | | The South Caucasian languages or Kartvelian languages are a family of languages, spoken mainly in GeorgiaSouth Caucasian languages include: Georgian language (Kartuli ena) - official language of Georgia, more than 4 million native speakers Mingrelian[?] or Laz language - appr. |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/so/south-caucasian-languages.html
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| | Subject Object Verb - One Language |
| | SOV languages tend to have the adjectives before nouns, to use postpositions rather than prepositions, to place relative clauses before the nouns to which they refer, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. | | | SOV languages also seem to exhibit a tendency towards using a Time-Manner-Place ordering of prepositional phrases. | | | Subject Object Verb (SOV) is a term used in linguistic typology to state the general order of words in a language's sentences: "Sam oranges ate". |
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http://www.onelang.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Subject_Object_Verb
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| | Navajo language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Athabaskan words are modified primarily by prefixes, which is unusual for an SOV language (suffixes are expected). | | | Navajo (Diné bizaad) (occasionally spelled Navaho) is a Southern Athabaskan or Apachean language of the Athabaskan language family, belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. | | | Navajo claims more speakers than any other Native American language north of the Mexican border, with more than 100,000 native speakers, and this number is actually increasing with time. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/navajo_language.htm
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| | Subject Object Verb |
| | SOV languages tend to have the adjectives before nouns, to use postpositions rather than prepositions, to place relative clauses before the nouns to which they refer, and to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb. | | | SOV languages also seem to exhibit a tendancy towards using a Time-Manner-Place ordering of prepositional phrases. | | | Subject Object Verb (SOV) is a term used in linguistic typology to state the general order of words in a language's sentences: "Sam oranges ate". |
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http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/s/su/subject_object_verb.html
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| | Dutch grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Structurally, Dutch is an SOV language, meaning that the unmarked word order is subject - object - verb. | | | Furthermore, Dutch main clauses show V2 (Verb Second) language, which means that the inflected verb is raised to the second position in the clause. | | | In spoken language and also quite often in written language, hun and hen are used interchangeably. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_grammar
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| | Linguistics: Faculty & Students |
| | Current research also includes typological comparison of nominalized sentences in SOV languages. | | | Cairns, H., McDaniel, D., Hsu, J., and Rapp, M. (1994) "A longitudinal study of principles of control and pronominal reference in child English." Language 70: 260-288. | | | Areas of interest: Philosophy of language, semantics, logic. |
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http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/people/index.htm
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| | ozarque: Linguistics; conlangs; Language Construction 101A |
| | But as for languages which use case markings for the subject/object distinction, that's all the languages in the finno-ugric branch, all the languages in the slavic branch (i can't speak for the other branches well). | | | All I intend to mean by "polysynthetic language" is a language in which most of the heavy lifting is done in the morphology. | | | I can say that it is a head-marking language, so instead of case being marked on the nouns, pronominal cues as to the subject and object are included in the verb (or, sometimes, the object itself is incorporated into the verb). |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/ozarque/91895.html
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| | MAT |
| | English is a SOV language while Indian languages are SVO and are relatively of free word-order. | | | MAT technology is also being developed at NCST, Bombay for translation English news stories to Hindi and support it on the web. | | | Keeping in view the maximum correspondence in the language pairs, and keeping in view the need for translation of official correspondence from English to Hindi, this pair has been identified as the priority area for MAT system. |
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http://tdil.mit.gov.in/mat/ach-mat.htm
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | As a SOV language where objects precede the verb, Uzbek has postpositions rather than prepositions, and relative clauses that precede the verb. | | | Uzbek and (and not Russsian) was declared the officiail language of Uzbekistan in October 1989. | | | The Turkic languages, and the Mongolian-Tungus (Manchu-Tungusic) languages of Siberia and northeastern China are major divisions of the Altaic family or phylum (see Ruhlen 1987). |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=70
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