VO language

Encyclopedia : V : VO : VOL : VO language

Linguistic typology
Morphological
Analytic
Synthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Polysynthetic

Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Nominative-accusative
Ergative-absolutive
Active-stative
Tripartite
Direct-inverse system
Syntactic pivot
Theta role

Word Order
VO languages
Agent Verb Object
Verb Agent Object
Verb Object Agent
OV languages
Agent Object Verb
Object Agent Verb
Object Verb Agent
Time Manner Place
Place Manner Time

In linguistics, a VO language is a language in which the verb typically comes before the object. VO languages are primarily right-branching, or head-initial; that is, heads are generally found at the beginning of their phrases.

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