In languages with Nominative-Accusative morphosyntactic alignment the subject is distinguished from object in any sentence despite the transitivity of predicate's verb. This distinction may be expressed by morphology and/or syntax. Majority of Indo-European languages are Nominative-Accusative. Standard Nûrlâm is also Nominative language, while it's archaic version is Ergative.

While in Ergative languages the terms Agent and Patient are more convenient for description of verb's arguments, in Nominative-Accusative languages both agent and patient may become either subject or object of predicate depending on grammatical voice.

The typical word order in standard Nûrlâm is Subject–Verb–Object (SVO). Indirect objects are placed after direct objects. Nouns in locative or marginal case are not objects but usually an adverbials, so they don't follow this word order.