Maurits & Griffiths (2014): "... the higher frequency of SOV in present languages is perhaps best attributed to widespread descent from ancestral SOV languages, while the high frequency of SVO seems to be due to preferred directions of word-order change ... presumably affected by functionality"

Maurits & Griffiths (2014) orohar mintzo direlarik ("on the whole"), eta nahiz euren ereduan ez izán kontuan a efektua e kontaktu linguistikoa edota a efektua e behar eta baldintza komunikatibo ezberdinak an garai oso diferenteak, argiki bereizten dituzte arrazoi orokor-nagusiak zergátik gaur egun egonen liraké, alde batetik, maiztasun handia (nahiz jaitsiz) an (S)OV sintaxiak, eta bestetik maiztasun orobat handia an (S)VO sintaxiak:

On the whole, it seems that the higher frequency of SOV in present languages is perhaps best attributed to widespread descent from ancestral SOV languages, while the high frequency of SVO seems to be due to preferred directions of word-order change and variation in word-order stability, both of which are presumably affected by functionality.

Ikusten dugunez, ematen dituzte oso arrazoi ezberdinak: (S)OV sinpleki etorriko lirake ti aintzinako egoera bat, bitárten, oso ezberdinki, (S)VO sintaxiak gerota gehiago zabaltzen ariko liraké  ...

... presumably affected by functionality ... 

non ulertu beharko litzake ze funtzionalitate hori referitzen da ki behar linguistiko orokorrak an baldintza komunikatibo orokorrak, zein dauden oso urrun ti baldintza eta behar komunikatiboak zein existituko ziren noiz hizkuntzak abiatu zirén ti zero. Bai, azken buruan, (S)VO zabaltzen ariko litzake zatio bere funtzionalitate erlatibo handiagoa azpi baldintza exigenteagoak. [⇶]