Universal 1317:
- Original
- Long scrambling is limited to extraction from AP and PP.
- Standardized
- IF long scrambling is possible, THEN it occurs out of (extended) AP or PP, but not out of the extended nominal or verbal domain.
- Keywords
- order, scrambling
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 23 languages in Corver & Riemsdijk 1997
- Source
- Corver & Riemsdijk 1997: 68
- Counterexamples
1. SHORT SCRAMBLING: those types of scrambling in which the scrambled element remains with in the domain of its head.LONG SCRAMBLING: cases in which the scrambled element appears outside the domain of its head.2. Concerning long scrambling out of the verbal (clausal) domain there is some controversy. Saito 1992 has claimed that long distance scrambling exists in Japanese, but Ueyama 1994 argues that the relevant examples are only permissible on a focus reading of the scrambled constituent. For a similar claim for long scrambling in Persian, see Browning & Karimi 1994. Both cited in Corver & Riemsdijk 1997: 68.