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Object Verb Subject - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Action, Actor, Affair, Agent, Angle, Application, Appositive, Apt, Architect, Architecture, Area, Argument, Atmosphere, Attribute, Author, Background, Basis
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Morphosyntactic alignment
Theta role
Syntactic pivot
Nominative-accusative language
Nominative-absolutive language
Ergative-absolutive language
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Object Verb Subject (OVS) is one of the permutations of expression used in linguistic typology. OVS denotes the sequence 'Object Verb Subject' in unmarked expressions: Oranges ate Sam, Thorns have roses. OVS languages are a type of languages when classifying languages according to the dominant sequence of these constituents. In this case the sequence of the constituents Object Verb Subject. This sequence is the rarest. Examples of human languages that actually use it include Guarijio and Hixkaryana.

This sequence was chosen for the artificial language Klingon, a language spoken by the extraterrestrial Klingon race in the fictional universe of the Star Trek series, in order to make the language sound deliberately alien and counterintuitive to the human mind. Thus, Klingon uses the rarest permutation of expression, which is expected given the designers' goals.

The other permutations in the order of most common to rarest are:

See also

Example Usage of Subject

DrFausty: @timoreilly: Wonder if wikipedia is badly broken? Pick entry where you have great Subject area expertise. Make useful edit. Watch it revert.
eehoepfl: RT @lawrob1911: I've come 2 realization that u can't put n e thing past n e one n e more.. Ninjas Subject 2 do n e thing #imjussayin
cameron_etc: I really don't have 800 words inside of me on the Subject of church reform. Sorry PJ, I just don't.
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