In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam apples (Sam ate apples). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, [1] after SOV (as in Hindi and Japanese) and SVO (as in English and Mandarin Chinese).

2016年7月28日 · You basically have it right. For a VSO word order, you're working within a head-initial framework where the subject gets generated in SpecVP and stays there, while the verb moves up the T. Which is why with an auxiliary, you often see the order AuxSVO (since Aux is the thing taking the TAM and agreement info).

ementary tree, as shown in (9ab). One tree, headed by Mae, the finite copula, must substitute/adjoin in to the elementary tree in front of Sion, and another, headed by the participle form of the raising verb, yn digwydd, must adjoin in below Si6n, creating the raising.structure. Let us consider what such auxil­ iary trees must look like:

2007年9月1日 · This chapter presents an analysis of VSO order in terms of the feature-checking system of Chomsky (1995). Starting from the well-established idea that VSO order involves verb-movement out of VP and over the subject, the related questions of the target position of the verb and the target position of the subject are systematically investigated ...

Typologically, it is common to describe languages in terms of the relative order of the subject (S), the object (O), and the verb (V). This gives rise to six logically possible types. Of these SOV and SVO are the most common, VSO is somewhat common—VOS, OVS, and …

前面提到，VSO语序可以通过“剩余移位”（Remnant Movement）得到。这是因为，O在VP移位前，已经移出了VP。O移位的动机与其DP/NP的身份有关，例如在Niuean语中：

The problem of VSO languages • There are quite a number of languages, however, for which the basic word order is VSO. Irish, Welsh, and Arabic are among them. • Try as we might, there is no way to set the X-bar parameters to get VSO order—we have a specifier (the subject) between the verb and its complement. French • French presents a ...

Step 1: Identify the parts of speech for all the words in the sentence Step 2: figure out what words "go together in phrases" Step 3: apply the rules backwards (bottom up) to build the tree. Start with the modifiers closest to the head Step 4: now check your tree against your rules.

Subjects start lower in the tree and move to spec-TP. This is phrasal movement, that is, the movement of phrases (rather than heads, discussed in chapter 7). Phrasal movement is divided into two distinct domains: A-movement and A’-movement. This chapter will deal exclusively with A-movement. A’-movement is addressed in chapter 10.

2020年10月3日 · Just make your noun phrases head-initial. Most VSO languages have head-initial syntax. Consider Aux-SVO when there are auxiliary verbs. Another common feature of VSO languages is the use of inflected prepositions.