1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 1757: Posted in Universals Archive Universal 1757: Original SOV languages cannot borrow a set of prepositions. Standardized IF basic word order is SOV, THEN there are no prepositions owing to borrowing. Keywords borrowing, order, SOV, preposition Domain lexicon, syntax Type implication Status diachronic Quality statistical Basis unspecified Source Bickerton 1981: 50 Counterexamples Hungarian, SOV, borrowing the German preposition ‘ohne’: Moravcsik 1978: 113 [is only one, not a set].Livonian and Estonian, SOV, borrowing a considerable number of prepositions from Russian (Ehala 1994): Farrar 1998. Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
