SOV type - SOV type

Japanese: SOV 型 - えすおーぶいがた
SOV type - SOV type

...This type of honorific speech developed in the monsoon regions of the East and is not found in continental languages ​​except Korean.
[Grammar - Syntactic Aspects]
If we show the word order of various languages ​​with S for subject, O for object, and V for verb, for example, Arabic is VSO type because the verb comes at the beginning of the sentence (e.g., taqru'u al-bintu kitāban.〈the girl is reading a book〉), while English and Chinese, where the verb comes between the subject and object, are SVO type (e.g., the girl is reading a book.〈the girl is reading a book〉), and Japanese, where the verb comes at the end of the sentence, belongs to SOV type. SOV type languages, such as Japanese, Korean, Mongolian languages, Turkic languages, and Tungusic languages, are distributed from North Eurasia to the Japanese archipelago. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "SOV type" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…こうした敬語法は東洋のモンスーン地帯に発達していて,朝鮮を除く大陸の諸言語には見られない現象である。
[文法――統語面]
 いま主語subjectをS,目的語objectをO,動詞verbをVとして種々の言語の語順を示せば,例えばアラビア語は動詞が文頭に立つのでVSO型(例:taqru’u al‐bintu kitāban.〈読んでいる・少女が・本を〉)とされ,また例えば英語や中国語のように動詞が主語と目的語の間にくるものはSVO型(例:the girl・is reading・a book.〈少女が・読んでいる・本を〉),そして日本語は動詞が文末にくるのでSOV型に属する。SOV型言語は,日本語,朝鮮語,モンゴル諸語,チュルク諸語,ツングース諸語のように,北ユーラシアから日本列島へと分布している。…

※「SOV 型」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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