There are
different classifications of sentences. Structurally-typological approach to
the classification of sentences is based on a comparison of the word order,
i.e. the position of main and secondary components in a simple sentence. Such
an approach follows from the theory of language typology elaborated by the
American linguist J. Greenberg. In the theoretical part the report provides the
main thesis of the classical Greenberg’s theory, which is based on the order of
the basic components of a simple sentence: subject (S), verb (V) and object
(O). According to this theory any language admits different configurations of
the elements: SVO, SOV, VSO, VOS, OSV or OVS, but the dominant order can be
only one. Greenberg took into account only sentences with nominal subject and
nominal object. As a rule the most frequent orders are SVO, SOV and VSO. The
other three orders VOS, OSV, OVS are very rare and hardly reach the dominant
status.
Spanish is
traditionally considered SVO-language. Nevertheless there are contemporary
linguistic investigations that give new information according to which the
Spanish language is not only the type SVO but also the type VSO.
As for the old
Spanish language there are different opinions: some linguists consider that the
type VSO is an intermediate one between the Latin order SOV and modern Spanish
order SVO, others refer the old Spanish language to the type SVO. Thus, the aim
of the report is to analyze the types of simple narrative sentences in the
language of formal letters written in old Spanish of the XIII century.
Spanish Old Spanish Latin business letter simple sentence word order subject predicate object SVO SOV VSO VOS OSV OVS-models
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Publication Date | April 30, 2017 |
Submission Date | April 27, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017Volume: 3 Issue: 7 |
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