Verb Object Subject
| Linguistic typology |
|---|
| Morphological typology |
| Analytic language |
| Synthetic language |
| Fusional language |
| Agglutinative language |
| Polysynthetic language |
| Morphosyntactic alignment |
| Theta role |
| Syntactic pivot |
| Nominative-accusative language |
| Nominative-absolutive language |
| Ergative-absolutive language |
| Tripartite language |
| Time Manner Place |
| Place Manner Time |
| Subject Verb Object |
| Subject Object Verb |
| Verb Subject Object |
| Verb Object Subject |
| Object Subject Verb |
| Object Verb Subject |
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Verb Object Subject - commonly used in its abbreviated form VOS - is a term in Linguistic typology. It represents one type of languages when classifying languages according to the sequence of these constitutents in neutral expressions: Ate oranges Sam.
Examples include Malagasy, (Old) Javanese and Fijian. Note that these three languages are all Austronesian languages.
The other permutations according to importance:
- Subject Object Verb (e.g. Japanese, Persian, Latin)
- Subject Verb Object (e.g. English, German, Kiswahili, Chinese)
- Verb Subject Object (e.g. Welsh and Arabic)
- Object Subject Verb (e.g. Xavante and Apurina)
- Object Verb Subject (e.g. Hixkaryana)