- Map-Legend:
- O-V
- V-O
- Mixed Data
- No Data
| Language | Question | Subquestion | Color | Parameter | Value | Preference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akan | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Amharic | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Ika | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Bwamu | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Czech | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Ninkaré | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Finnish | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Gagauz | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Mongolian | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Linxia Chinese | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Huarong Chinese | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Ancash Quechua | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | P | |
| Ancash Quechua | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | S | |
| Hungarian | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Indonesian | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Italian | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Jejueo | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Kangle Chinese | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Kazakh | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Standard Mandarin | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | S | |
| Standard Mandarin | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | P | |
| Marathi | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Mopan Maya | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Mooré | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Kurux | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | P | |
| Kurux | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | S | |
| Nepali | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | P | |
| Nepali | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | S | |
| Newari | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Turkish | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Kannada | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | ||
| Polish | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Slovene | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | S | |
| Slovene | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | P | |
| Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Cochabamba Quechua | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | P | |
| Cochabamba Quechua | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | S | |
| English | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Thai | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | ||
| Upper Sorbian | 1 | a | O-V | 1 | UP | |
| Upper Sorbian | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | UP | |
| Vietnamese | 1 | a | V-O | 1 | NA | |
| Oromo | 1 | a | O-V | 1 |
(1) What is the context-neutral order of object (O) and verb (V) in simple transitive clauses (without an auxiliary) in a wide focus context?
Alternatives to be checked: O-V / V-O
a) Indefinite O
Prompt: What has happened?
My father bought a new car. (V-O)
*My father a new car bought. (O-V)
Replace by a different tense if necessary
Explanation: Use a wide focus context, such as induced by 'What's new?' or 'What happened?', as a prompt and check word order in the possible responses. The aim is to obtain a 'thetic' all-new context, uttered 'out of the blue', i.e., without preceding discourse. Feel free to change the tense if the past is periphrastic in your language. Please exclude contrastive focus or topic constructions as well as pronominal arguments.