free word order in a sentence
Examples
- However, the model seemed to fail when assigning case in languages with OSV word order or free word order.
- For languages that have case and thus freer word order, morphological case is the most readily available criterion for identifying objects.
- Languages having cases often exhibit free word order, because thematic roles are not required to be marked by position in the sentence.
- However, some languages use a fixed word order, even if they provide a degree of marking that would support free word order.
- Also, some languages with free word order such as some varieties of Datooga combine free word order with a lack of morphological distinction between arguments.
- The free word order holds for all attributives : Genitives ( possessives ) and relative clauses can also either precede or follow the noun they modify.
- O'odham has relatively free word order within clauses; for example, all of the following sentences mean " the boy brands the pig ":
- These languages have a freer word order than English does, because English depends on word order ( or, in some cases, inflection ) to identify the subject and object:
- This requirement allows for free word orders of adjective-noun and noun-adjective, even when two noun phrases are adjacent in subject object verb or verb subject object clauses:
- Indeed, the whole criticism of the transformational programme is that when it is applied to relatively free word order languages like Russian, almost every kind of movement really does become possible.