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When the relative position of words within a sentence may change the meaning or grammaticality, a language is said to be sensitive to word order.
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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
French is the most strictly SVO language followed by Italian.
Spanish is extremely flexible in terms of word order - with VSO sentences being particularly common, possibly due to semitic influence. VS …
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Why is Spanish SVO and not VSO?
Spanish is not fully an SVO language - in fact medieval Spanish has been categorized by some linguists as a VSO language. It has argued this is due to Semitic (Arabic) influence but whether it is or n …
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Why are Latin descendants SVO?
The premise holds for most Romance languages but it is difficult to categorize Spanish (the largest latin language by number of speakers) as an SVO language. The earliest texts in medieval Spanish wer …
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