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title = "The order of subject, object and verb in Tatyshly {U}dmurt",
author = "Belova, Daria and
Khomchenkova, Irina",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on {NLP} Applications to Field Linguistics",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.fieldmatters-1.7/",
pages = "60--65",
abstract = "We conduct a preliminary study of the order of subject (S), object (O), and verb (V) in Tatyshly Udmurt (Finno-Ugric) on the basis of approximately 900 clauses from oral folklore and non-folklore narratives (including contemporary texts and texts recorded earlier) using a gradient approach. We show that the most frequent word orders are SOV, SV, and OV. In full clauses (with both S and O), in folklore texts SOV order ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 70{\%}) is followed by OSV order ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 15{\%}). In contemporary non-folklore texts, however, SOV order competes with SVO order (50{\%} vs 30{\%}), which may be explained by the influence of Russian. We note that full clauses may differ from clauses with only S or with only O: in contemporary folklore texts VS order is much more frequent in S-only clauses ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 23{\%}) than in full ones ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 4{\%}), and in contemporary non-folklore texts VO order is more frequent in full clauses ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 35{\%}) than in O-only ones ({\ensuremath{\approx}} 12{\%}). Moreover, we show that word order can depend on the type of clause. For example, in existential clauses the order is almost always SV, while clauses with verbs of speech often have VS order."
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%T The order of subject, object and verb in Tatyshly Udmurt
%A Belova, Daria
%A Khomchenkova, Irina
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%D 2026
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%X We conduct a preliminary study of the order of subject (S), object (O), and verb (V) in Tatyshly Udmurt (Finno-Ugric) on the basis of approximately 900 clauses from oral folklore and non-folklore narratives (including contemporary texts and texts recorded earlier) using a gradient approach. We show that the most frequent word orders are SOV, SV, and OV. In full clauses (with both S and O), in folklore texts SOV order (\ensuremath\approx 70%) is followed by OSV order (\ensuremath\approx 15%). In contemporary non-folklore texts, however, SOV order competes with SVO order (50% vs 30%), which may be explained by the influence of Russian. We note that full clauses may differ from clauses with only S or with only O: in contemporary folklore texts VS order is much more frequent in S-only clauses (\ensuremath\approx 23%) than in full ones (\ensuremath\approx 4%), and in contemporary non-folklore texts VO order is more frequent in full clauses (\ensuremath\approx 35%) than in O-only ones (\ensuremath\approx 12%). Moreover, we show that word order can depend on the type of clause. For example, in existential clauses the order is almost always SV, while clauses with verbs of speech often have VS order.
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%P 60-65
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[The order of subject, object and verb in Tatyshly Udmurt](https://aclanthology.org/2026.fieldmatters-1.7/) (Belova & Khomchenkova, FieldMatters 2026)
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