word order
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word order (countable and uncountable, plural word orders)
The ordering of the syntactic constituents of a language.
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Agrammatic aphasiacs tend to be sensitive to word order, relying instead on pragmatics in order to understand others.
Although verbs follow their direct objects, oblique adpositional phrases (like "in the house", "with timber") typically come after the verb, creating a SOVX word order.
Another similarity among creoles can be seen in the fact that questions are created simply by changing the intonation of a declarative sentence, not its word order or content.
As a result, there has been quite some debate as to the basic word order of Niger–Congo.
Basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), although subjects are often dropped ; prepositions are used rather than postpositions.
Changing the word order changes the emphasis slightly but not the fundamental meaning of the sentence.