1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 624: SA ⇒ verb-initial V verb-final Posted in Universals Archive Universal 624: SA ⇒ verb-initial V verb-final Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, then it has verb-initial or verb-final constituent order. Standardized IF there is Suffixaufnahme, THEN basic order is verb-initial or verb-final. Keywords order, verb-initial, verb-final, case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme Domain inflection, syntax Type implication Status achronic Quality statistical Basis languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995 Source Plank 1995 Counterexamples Kashmiri (Indo-Iranian) could be a problem for this correlation. Its word order is far from simple. According to Zaxar’in & Edelman (1971: 125), it is relatively free, but standard order is Subject-Finite Verb-Object (see Payne 1995). Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
