Timeline for Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO?
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| Nov 4, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | Alex | Our brother will have to go to the hospital - Unless Im mistaken the object is the hospital | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 15:20 | comment | added | Alex | @Tristan Yes I guess I should have written Me dijo Jose a mi or something, The "a mi" is implied in the sentence structure. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 15:16 | comment | added | Tristan | I'm well aware that VSO is a common order in Spanish, but the example you give is not an instance of it (and, as it contains two clauses, it's easy for people to be confused about which one you're referring to, as I was at first) | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 15:15 | comment | added | Tristan | there's no object in "tendra que ir tu hermano al hospital", it has a prepositional phrase following the subject instead. Likewise "Vino Jose a la escuela". "Ha acabado tu hijos los deberes" is indeed VSO though | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | Alex | @Tristan: Tendra que ir tu hermano al hospital (will have to go your brother to the hospital) - VSO. Another example - Vino Jose a la escuela. Came jose to the schoool Ha acabado tu hijo los deberes. Has finished your son the homework VSO. Simple. Spanish has a similar structure to dialectical Arabic in this regard. Both SVO and VSO are allowed with a slight preference for VSO - since SVO sounds clumsy in some sentences. In questions its nearly always VSO. | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 11:21 | comment | added | Tristan | or did you mean the "que ir tu hermano contigo al hospital"? That doesn't have an object but is still VS | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 9:06 | comment | added | Tristan | "me dijo mi madre" is OVS, not VSO | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 12:32 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | As a non-native speaker, yes, this is exactly how we’re taught Spanish, at least some of us. The fact that Spanish employs VSO much more frequently than most SVO languages is a perfectly standard part of Spanish grammar as it is taught. | |
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| Oct 17, 2020 at 12:14 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |