SVO

Though it will be a little more comprehensible if you know that "SVO" is linguisticians 'jargon for "subject-verb-object."

Brisingr 2008

Though it will be a little more comprehensible if you know that "SVO" is linguisticians 'jargon for "subject-verb-object."

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

* Use the oil just as it is – usually called SVO fuel straight vegetable oil;

Wanted: garage hackers 2005

A curious blend of consumers -- from clean-air activists to school districts to the U.S. military (PDF) -- are now running their diesel engines off either straight vegetable oil, known as SVO, or vegetable oil that has been converted to diesel fuel, or biodiesel.

Veggie Fuels Feed Bottom Line James Bernard Frost 2003

The most common are SVO (English), SOV (Japanese), VSO (Classical Arabic).

Archive 2010-05-01 GamesWithWords 2010

The most common are SVO (English), SOV (Japanese), VSO (Classical Arabic).

Why Is Nobody Studying Klingon? josh 2010

Both languages employ SOV in subordinate clauses and SVO in main clauses, although other main-clause word orders are possible under special circumstances.

Etruscan syntactic inversion 2010

Both are subject-prominent languages and have word orders that are relatively fixed as SVO subject-verb-object.

French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News 2009

Out on separate branches of the Indo-European tree, both French and English have become relatively strict, subject-prominent SVO languages that no longer inflect as much as Old Germanic or Classical Latin did.

French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News 2009

Subject-first languages (SOV and SVO) predominate (presumably because of x-bar theory), while object-first languages (OSV and OVS) are exceeding rare.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008