Universal 992: conditional deranking ⇒ SVO
- Original
- Languages with conditional deranking typically prefer SVO word order.
- Standardized
- IF there is conditional deranking, THEN basic order is SVO.
- Keywords
- order, SVO, deranking
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 110 languages
- Source
- Stassen 1984: 173, Stassen 1985: 93
- Counterexamples
1. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the C-chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking. 2. Cf. ##985, 989.