In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam beer drank" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam drank beer" which is subject–verb–object (SVO).. The term is often loosely used for ergative …

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.Words may contain different morphemes to determine their meanings, but all of these morphemes (including stems and affixes) tend to remain unchanged after their unions, although this is not a rule: for example, Finnish is a typical agglutinative language, but …

In linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb. Examples are Basque, Georgian, Mayan, Tibetan, certain Indo-European languages (such as the Kurdish languages and many Indo …

In sentence (1), the verb "wash" is šak’ʷətəs where šak’ʷ-is the root and -ət and -əs are inflectional suffixes. The subject "the woman" is łə słeniʔ and the object "the baby" is łə qeq.In this sentence, "the baby" is a free noun. (The niʔ here is an auxiliary, which can be ignored for explanatory purposes.). In sentence (2), "baby" does not appear as a free noun.

The word "polysynthesis" is composed of the Greek roots poly meaning "many" and synthesis meaning "placing together".. In linguistics a word is defined as a unit of meaning that can stand alone in a sentence, and which can be uttered in isolation. Words may be simple, consisting of a single unit of meaning, or they can be complex, formed by combining many small units of …

In linguistics, morphology (/ m ɔːr ˈ f ɒ l ə dʒ i /) is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and …

The Dogon languages are a small closely-related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family.There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most, like Dogul, have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three.Their basic word order is subject–object–verb

Verbal agreement. Verbal agreement, or concord, is a morpho-syntactic construct in which properties of the subject and/or objects of a verb are indicated by the verb form. Verbs are then said to agree with their subjects (resp. objects).. Many English verbs exhibit subject agreement of the following sort: whereas I go, you go, we go, they go are all grammatical in standard …

Toki Pona (rendered as toki pona and variously translated as 'the language of good' or 'simple talk'; IPA: [ˈtoki ˈpona] (); English: / ˈ t oʊ k i ˈ p oʊ n ə /) is a philosophical artistic constructed language (philosophical artlang) known for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition. It was created by Sonja Lang, a Canadian linguist and translator, to simplify …

Telugu (/ ˈ t ɛ l ʊ ɡ uː /; తెలుగు, Telugu pronunciation: ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Telugu people predominantly living in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.It is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India.