Universal 618:
- Original
- If a language can relativize a subordinate direct object, then it can relativize a main clause direct object.
- Standardized
- IF a subordinate direct object can be relativized, THEN a main clause direct object can be as well.
- Keywords
- accessibility hierarchy, relative clause, subordinate, main, direct object
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 105 languages of Comrie’s sample
- Source
- Comrie 1981: 154
- Counterexamples