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Universal 365:
- Original
- If the verb agrees with the subject and object and there is at least one o-V form, then the dominant order is SV.
- Standardized
- Whenever there is verb agreement with subject and object, IF object agreement markers can be preverbal, THEN basic word order is SV.
- Keywords
- verb agreement, order, subject, object, affix-order
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
- Masai, Teuso (both E. Sudanic, Nilo-Saharan), Wolio (Austronesian), Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan), Aguacatec (Mayan), Chinook (Chinookan), Fox (Algonquian), Coeur d’Alene (Salish) (Kozinsky 1981)
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