Universal 439: non-accusative alignment ⇒ verb-initial
- Original
- Non-accusative alignment may be associated with verb-initial order.
- Standardized
- IF alignment is non-accusative, THEN there will be verb-initial order.
- Keywords
- alignment, non-accusative, order, verb-initial
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of Nichols 1992
- Source
- Nichols 1992: 113
- Counterexamples
Nichols 1990: 113 notes that this is only a hypothesis, and rests on a correlation that may be accidental.