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Universal 1165:
- Original
- Whenever order correlates with definiteness, the definite element tends to be placed at the beginning of the sentence.
- Standardized
- Whenever order correlates with definiteness, the definite element tends to be placed at the beginning of the sentence.
- Keywords
- order, definiteness
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969
- Source
- Moravcsik 1969: 66
- Counterexamples
But there are Comment-before-Topic lgs. [Give references]