word order
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These include word order preferences, such as whether verbs come before or after objects, and hierarchical structures, such as how grammatical relationships are marked within sentences.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
The literary term “anastrophe” refers to the technique of reversing word order in a sentence for effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Nordlinger and her colleagues focused on the impact of free word order at a critical moment in forming a sentence.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
A last option to consider is that the Yoda species is in some way hard-wired for object-subject-verb word order.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2019
It’s just one way to display syntax on a page, and not a particularly good one, with user-unfriendly features such as scrambled word order and arbitrary graphical conventions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
