Word order

word order
video about subject-verb-object order
Fieldlinguistics
OriginLanguage Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
Key peopleBernard Comrie
PurposeStudying and classifying language samples and languages by the ordering of grammatical elements

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.

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