In languages with Nominative-Accusative morphosyntactic alignment the subject is distinguished from object in any sentence despite the transitivity of verb in predicate. 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.

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.