Word Order

词序

A term used in grammatical analysis to refer to the sequential arrangement of words in larger linguistics units. Some languages (e.g. English) rely on word-order as a means of expressing grammatical relationships within constructions; in others (e.g. Latin) word-order is more flexible, as grammatical relations are signalled by inflections. In later generative linguistics, languages with fairly fixed word-order are called configurational languages; those with fairly free word-order are non-configurational languages.

语法分析用来指词在较大语言单位中的配置序列。有的语言（如英语）靠词序来表达构式内的语法关系；有的语言（如拉丁语）则词序比较灵活，因为语法关系由屈折形态表示。最近的生成语言学将词序比较固定的语言称作构型语言，而词序比较自由的语言则为非构型语言。