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Universal 182:
- Original
- If adnominal genitival complements are neither marked by case nor by coreference on the head-NP, there is a tendency for SVO.
- Standardized
- IF adnominal genitival complements are neither marked by case nor by coreference on the head-NP, THEN basic order tends to be SVO.
- Keywords
- attributive, case, genitive, NP, order, head-marking, agreement, SVO
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- ?
- Source
- Stassen 1992 (via Hurford & Kirby)
- Counterexamples