Word
The smallest unit of speech that can be used to answer a question. (morphology) The letters between two white spaces. (orthography) The smallest unit of language that can be moved. (syntax)
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Word Order
The surface, linear realization of phrases and clauses. This is often topologically characterized by the canonical order of a language’s major constituents (i.e. SVO, SOV VSO etc…) (syntax)
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Word Order Correlations
Phrases in a given language tend to be consistently head-initial or consistently head-final. (typology)
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