OV language

Linguistic typology
Morphological
Isolating
Synthetic
Polysynthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Accusative
Ergative
Split ergative
Philippine
Active–stative
Tripartite
Inverse marking
Syntactic pivot
Theta role
Word Order
VO languages
Subject Verb Object
Verb Subject Object
Verb Object Subject
OV languages
Subject Object Verb
Object Subject Verb
Object Verb Subject
Time Manner Place
Place Manner Time
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In linguistics, an OV language is a language in which the object comes before the verb.^[1]

See also

• VO language
• Korean language

References

1. ^ 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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