Linguistics Coding Grammatical Relations
- Created by: issywhittingham
- Created on: 05-01-20 13:45
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Languages have different ways of coding grammatical relations. These 3 strategies are:
1. Word Order
- many languages have fixed word order
- English is SVO
- the most common is SOV (45%) of languages are this word order
In some languages word order plays no role, these languages then use overt marking:
2. Dependent marking: Case
- marking on the argument…
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