VO language
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In linguistics, a VO language is a language in which the verb typically comes before the object.[1]
Winfred P. Lehmann first proposed to reduce the six possible permutations of word order to just two main ones, VO and OV, in what he calls the Fundamental Principle of Placement (FPP), arguing that the subject is not a primary element of a sentence. VO languages are primarily right-branching, or head-initial; that is, heads are generally found at the beginning of their phrases. In such languages, for example, prepositions are much more frequent than postpositions.
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- ^ Trips, Carola (2002). From OV to VO in early Middle English: Volume 60 of Linguistik aktuell - Issue 60 of Linguistik Artuell/Linguistics Today Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9027227810. http://books.google.com/books?id=zUD_MLxwN_8C&pg=PA1&dq=OV+language&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=OV%20language&f=false.
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