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Universal 1399:

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Universal 1399:

Original
All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents.
For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the most “normal”, most prosaic, and implicationally most unmarked ordering for such constructions is in a non-sentence-initial position-following either the superficial subject, or the superficial object, or both.
Standardized
All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents.
For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the most “normal”, most prosaic, and implicationally most unmarked ordering for such constructions is in a non-sentence-initial position-following either the superficial subject, or the superficial object, or both.
Keywords
order, sentence, adverbial
Domain
syntax
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978]
Source
Sanders 1972: 116-7, Sanders 1978: 72-74
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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