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subject - verb - object word order.

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What are the general word order trends of VO languages

I’ve heard that some scholars collapse SVO, VSO, and VOS into one general category of VO. From what I understand, these VO languages allegedly exhibit strong and weak common word order trends. …
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Why do dominant VSO languages all have SVO as an alternative word order?

Why are dominant VSO languages predisposed to allow SVO as an alternative? My next question would be asking for examples from mainly VSO languages performing SVO. … I’m mainly asking about the broader trend of VSO/SVO alternation. …
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