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Universal 1546:
- Original
- In verb-initial languages, there is probably less agreement of adjectives with common nouns than in verb-final languages, especially case agreement.
- Standardized
- The likelihood of attributive adjectives agreeing with nouns, especially in case, is lower if basic order is verb-initial than if it is verb-final.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, verb-final, agreement, adjective, attribution, case
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990: 13
- Counterexamples
