This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper comprises an investigation of the order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) in Greek stichic verse, and ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...

Figure 2: Summary of evolutionary dependencies in word order for four language families. Dryer’s study of the Greenberg word-order universals 4 across a world-wide sample of related and unrelated ...

There are languages that place the verb between the subject and the object (SVO order--Subject/ Verb/ Object) while others place it at the end of the trio (SOV order). The order of these elements, far ...