This principle suggests these preferred positions for relational markers on NPs (adpositions, cases), which link these NPs to their verb: S-suffix/postp O-suffix/postp V; V-prep/prefix-O prep/prefix-S. SVO is mixed, requiring pre- and post-posed relational markers to conform to this iconicity principle: S-suffix / postp V prep / prefix O from which this is supposed to follow:SOV languages with suffixing morphology will have an unmarked (i.e. agglutinative) morphology, whereas VOS languages with a prefixing morphology will also present a less marked morphology than VOS languages with suffixes (Cf. #1342). (Moreno 1987)
This principle suggests these preferred positions for relational markers on NPs (adpositions, cases), which link these NPs to their verb: S-suffix/postp O-suffix/postp V; V-prep/prefix-O prep/prefix-S. SVO is mixed, requiring pre- and post-posed relational markers to conform to this iconicity principle: S-suffix / postp V prep / prefix O from which this is supposed to follow:SOV languages with suffixing morphology will have an unmarked (i.e. agglutinative) morphology, whereas VOS languages with a prefixing morphology will also present a less marked morphology than VOS languages with suffixes (Cf. #1342). (Moreno 1987)