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In linguistic typology, object–subject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before the subject. OS is notable for its statistical rarity as a default or predominant word order among natural languages. Languages with predominant OS word order display properties that distinguish them from languages with subject–object (SO) word order.

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rdfs:comment	In linguistic typology, object–subject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before the subject. OS is notable for its statistical rarity as a default or predominant word order among natural languages. Languages with predominant OS word order display properties that distinguish them from languages with subject–object (SO) word order. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Pronouns Nominative–accusative Hurrian language Joseph Greenberg Verb–object–subject Verb–object–subject word order Desmond C. Derbyshire Constructed languages Linguistic typology Word order Mayan languages Tupi–Guarani languages Genitive Geoffrey K. Pullum Nadahup languages Ergative–absolutive alignment Anna Siewierska Apurinã language Arawakan languages Malagasy language Steven Pinker Subject–object–verb word order Äiwoo language Passive voice Matthew Dryer Austronesian languages Agreement (linguistics) Topic–comment Turkish language Tzeltal language Jê languages Language family Linguistic typology Nilotic languages Amazonian languages Nouns Oto-Manguean languages Cariban languages Chumashan languages Hixkaryana language Language extinction Päri language Branching (linguistics) Japanese language Maria Polinsky Chonan languages Xavante language The Language Instinct Ditransitive Postpositions Greenberg's linguistic universals Mesopotamia Natural languages Object–subject–verb word order Theo Vennemann Urubu language Object–verb word order Object–verb–subject word order Word order Subject–verb–object word order Mangarrayi language Nadëb language Verb–subject–object Survivorship bias Subject side parameter Ergative–absolutive Free word order Object (linguistics) Selk'nam language Subject (linguistics)
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quote	[I]n languages where subject precedes object, causee, recipient, and benefactive precede the patient in double object constructions. [...] Correspondingly, in languages where object precedes subject, causee, recipient, and benefactive follow the patient in double object constructions. (en) Perhaps subjects precede objects because the subject of an action verb denotes the causal agent ; putting the subject first mirrors the cause coming before the effect. (en)
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has abstract	In linguistic typology, object–subject (OS) word order, also called O-before-S or patient–agent word order, is a word order in which the object appears before the subject. OS is notable for its statistical rarity as a default or predominant word order among natural languages. Languages with predominant OS word order display properties that distinguish them from languages with subject–object (SO) word order. The three OS word orders are VOS, OVS, and OSV. Collectively, these three orders comprise only around 2.9% of the world’s languages. SO word orders (SOV, SVO, VSO) are significantly more common, comprising approximately 83.3% of the world’s languages (the remaining 13.7% have free word order). Despite their low relative frequency, languages that use OS order by default can be found across a wide variety of families, including Nilotic, Austronesian, Mayan, Oto-Manguean, Chumashan, Arawakan, Cariban, Tupi–Guarani, Jê, Nadahup, and Chonan. (en)
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