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
Pitjantjatjara also has free word order, but unlike Murrinhpatha, the language is not polysynthetic.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
This is a simplification of Yoda’s syntax, but for the sake of simplicity we’ll use that label to describe his 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
