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Universal 350:
- Original
- In a dominant order the object and the verb are juxtaposed, i.e. no subject is placed between them.
- Standardized
- In a dominant order the object and the verb are juxtaposed, uninterrupted by the subject (i.e., SVO, SOV, VOS, OVS, but not VSO, OSV).
- Keywords
- order, verb, object, subject
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
See also #352.