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- initialism linguistics Object Subject Verb
- initialism Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic publication)
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Examples
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STX OSV rose 1.6% in Singapore trading, while Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. added 6.6% and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding tacked on 4.8% in Seoul.
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In comparison, Singapore raised US$6 billion—its largest foreign IPO last year was the US$224 million offer by Norway's STX OSV Holdings Ltd.
Fitness First to Seek Singapore Listing Sam Holmes 2011
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Whether abortion involves the killing of a child is “not relevant,” Neaman told OSV.
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Shipbuilders in Asia climbed higher on hopes for more overseas orders after STX OSV Holdings said it received an order for three multi-role vessels from Norway-based DOF ASA .
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Our ship, the OSV (offshore service vessel) Skye Falgout, is a 236 foot service vessel that normally carries pipe and supplies to offshore rigs, but today has aboard NBC's Bloom Mobile, named for David Bloom, the NBC reporter who died covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Robert L. Cavnar: Dispatch From the Deepwater Horizon Site 2010
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Our ship, the OSV (offshore service vessel) Skye Falgout, is a 236 foot service vessel that normally carries pipe and supplies to offshore rigs, but today has aboard NBC's Bloom Mobile, named for David Bloom, the NBC reporter who died covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Robert L. Cavnar: Dispatch From the Deepwater Horizon Site 2010
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In the first set of sentences, Yoda "shows signs of favoring OSV syntax Object-Subject-Verb as the basic order in the simple clause."
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Derbyshire have found "maybe eight or ten languages with OVS order in simple transitive clauses . . . and maybe four with OSV."
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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OVS and OSV languages are "fantastically rare"; Pullum and Desmond C.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Subject-first languages (SOV and SVO) predominate (presumably because of x-bar theory), while object-first languages (OSV and OVS) are exceeding rare.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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