How many basic arrangements of S, V and O are possible?
- 6
- 8
- 4
- 9
In the sentence He kissed Mary, how do we know who kissed whom?
- By the ordering of the noun phrases
- By the position of the verb phrase
- By the ordering of the noun phrases and the form of the pronoun
Languages with free or very flexible word order are ...
- usually heavily inflected to show case
- usually Romance or Slavonic
- usually Germanic, like English
- usually isolating and uninflected
German and French have two canonical word orders which are ...
- SOV and OSV
- SVO and SOV
- VOS and OVS
- OSV and SVO
Scandinavian languages mostly have ...
- SVO ordering
- SOV ordering
- VOS ordering
- OVS ordering
Hungarian, Japanese and Korean have ...
- SVO ordering
- SOV ordering
- VOS ordering
- OVS ordering
French and English both exhibit ...
- Noun-Genitive ordering
- Genitive-Noun ordering
Turkish and Japanese both have ...
- postpositions
- prepositions
With this ring, I thee wed is an example of ...
- SOV ordering in English
- OSV ordering in English
- VSO ordering in English
- OVS ordering in English
Most languages on earth are either ...
- SVO or SOV ordered
- SVO or OVS ordered
- SVO or VOS ordered
- VOS or SOV ordered