Universal 297:
- Original
- In all languages, inversion of the word order can be used as a logical or emotional emphasis.
- Standardized
- Inversion of word order is always available to convey logical or emotional emphasis.
- Keywords
- order, inversion
- Domain
- syntax, pragmatics
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Uspensky
- Counterexamples
