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Object Subject Verb (OSV) or
Object Agent Verb (OAV) is one of the permutations of expression used in
Linguistic typology.
OSV or OAV denotes the sequence "Object Subject Verb" in neutral expressions:
Oranges Sam ate.
It is a notation used when classifying languages according to the dominant sequence of these constituents.
This sequence is rare. One example of a language that uses it's
Xavante. It is also found in some other languages of
Brazil, including
Jamamadi,
Apurinã,
Kayabí and
Nadëb.
Sardinians very often use OAV while speaking in
Italian. It isn't uncommon in
Yiddish. In both of these languages this construction is commonly employed to emphasize the distinctive properties of the object. This structure may on occasion be seen in
English, usually in the
future tense or with the conjunction "but", such as in the following examples: "To Rome I'll go!", "I hate oranges, but apples I'll eat!"; and in relative clauses where the relative pronoun is the (direct or indirect) object, such as in "What I do is my own business." OAV is also used in
American Sign Language. This is also one of the two common word orders in
Malayalam, the other being
AOV.
Passive form of
Chinese is OSV (OAV).
- 那橘子被我吃掉了 - lit. The orange by me is eaten.
- 橘子(Orange)is an Object, 我 (I, me) is considered as Subject in Chinese, 吃 (Eat, ate) is Verb.
This word order appears in a number of
constructed languages, such as
Teonaht, as it's often chosen by language inventors for its exotic sound. The
Star Wars character
Yoda speaks in a modified form of this word order. This word order is also used in the game by
Bowyer.
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