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1. Morphological Marking

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   Isolating vs. Agglutinative Marking
   In isolating languages (e.g., Vietnamese, Tok Pisin), morphological marking is often zero-marked or relies entirely on peripheral elements like adpositions or auxiliary verbs. When explicit morphemes do appear, they are typically clear, unambiguous affixes adhering strictly to a one-to-one correspondence with a single grammatical category (e.g., one suffix equals one [tense](/entries/tense…

2. Word Order

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   Word order, also known as syntactical arrangement or constituent ordering, refers to the conventional sequence in which the major constituents of a sentence—typically the subject (S)/), verb (V)$, and object (O)/)—appear relative to one another in a given language. While often discussed in terms of S, V, and O, word order principles also govern the relative placement of adjectives, [adpositions](/entries/…

3. Word Order

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   The Role of Adpositions
   A fundamental typological correlate of word order involves the placement of adpositions relative to the nominal phrases they govern.
   Prepositions: Occur before the noun phrase (NP) they modify (e.g., in the house*). Languages that use prepositions are overwhelmingly Head-Initial (Verb-Final structures, like SOV/), often exhibit different tendencies).