Universal 1018:
- Original
- If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-2/3, then it has predicate-initial or predicate-final basic word order.
- Standardized
- IF the parts-of speech system is of types 1-2/3, THEN basic word order is predicate-initial or predicate-final.
- Keywords
- word class, order
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- no data
- Source
- Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997
- Counterexamples
For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.