Instantiations of AUX* which occur sentence-finally (in surface-order) are limited to languages such as Japanese which are commonly termed ‘rigid verb-final’.
Standardized
IF AUX occurs in final position (in surface-order), THEN basic order is rigidly verb-final.
Keywords
order, rigid, verb-final, AUX
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
Luiseño (Uto-Aztecan), Lummi (Salish), Egyptian Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), and Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan)
Definition of the set AUX* in language-independent terms:1. AUX is a syntactic constituent; 2. AUX contains a specified, i.e. fixed and small, class of elements; 3. These elements occur in a fixed order; 4. AUX must include elements marking tense and/or modality; 5. It may further include elements indicating subject marking, subject agreement, question, evidential, emphasis, aspect, object marking, object agreement, and negation; 6. Insofar as these notional types can be identified across languages, their relative order does not follow from any general principle(s). (Steele et al. 1981: 155-156)See also ##503, 1386.
Definition of the set AUX* in language-independent terms:1. AUX is a syntactic constituent; 2. AUX contains a specified, i.e. fixed and small, class of elements; 3. These elements occur in a fixed order; 4. AUX must include elements marking tense and/or modality; 5. It may further include elements indicating subject marking, subject agreement, question, evidential, emphasis, aspect, object marking, object agreement, and negation; 6. Insofar as these notional types can be identified across languages, their relative order does not follow from any general principle(s). (Steele et al. 1981: 155-156)See also ##503, 1386.