Universal 347:
- Original
- If VS order is not recessive, neither is VO order.
- Standardized
- IF VS order is not recessive, THEN VO order is not recessive either.
- Keywords
- order, verb, subject, object
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
Recessive order is the order which does not occur in a particular language, or its frequency in texts is near zero.