Universal 1550: verb-initial ⇒ N Rel
- Original
- In verb-initial languages the dominant order of relative clauses is always postnominal.
- Standardized
- IF word order is verb-initial, THEN the relative clause is postnominal.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, relative clause
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990: 14
- Counterexamples
Cf. #1555, esp. comment 5.