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Verb Object Subject or Verb Object Agent - commonly used in its abbreviated form VOS or VOA - is a term in Linguistic typology.
It represents one type of languages when classifying languages according to the sequence of these constitutents in neutral expressions: Ate oranges Sam.
Examples include Austronesian languages such as Malagasy, (Old) Javanese, Toba Batak and Fijian, as well as Mayan languages like Tzotzil, which are ergative languages. None of these languages have subjects in the English sense of the term, which is why many linguists find the phrase Verb Object Agent preferable to Verb Object Subject.
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