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Syntax concerns the rules governing how words are arranged to form phrases and sentences. Languages are broadly categorized by their typical word order, such as Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) (as in English) or Subject-Object-Verb (SOV, as in Japanese). The dominant syntactic structure often mirrors the perceived temporal structure of the speaker's society.
Morphological typology classifies languages based on how they form words and express grammatical relations. This…