Subject side parameter
Theories in word ordering
The following are 6 possible word orders that we can find across human languages. WALS, the World Atlas of Language Structures, presents a statistical estimation on languages with their own word orders.

Subject side parameter

Section Title: Theories in word ordering
Table Section Text: The following are 6 possible word orders that we can find across human languages. WALS, the World Atlas of Language Structures, presents a statistical estimation on languages with their own word orders.

Word Orders	Percentage

SOV	41.03%	Subject-initial	Specifier-Head

SVO	35.44%

VSO	6.90%	Subject-medial	Head-Specifier

VOS	1.82%	Subject-final

OVS	0.79%

OSV	0.29%	Subject-medial	Specifier-Head

Sentence(s)

Using WALS data, subject-verb-object languages are the second languages in the world at 35.44% of the world's languages.

final_sentence: Using WALS data, subject-verb-object languages are the second languages in the world at 35.44% of the world's languages.