Universal #1000

Legacy number: 1001

 Number  997
 Original  If a language has posterior consecutive deranking and its word order is VSO, then it has absolute deranking.
 Standardized  IF there is posterior consecutive deranking and basic order is VSO, THEN there is absolute deranking.
 Formula  posterior consecutive deranking & VSO ⇒ absolute deranking
 Keywords  order, SVO, deranking
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 110 languages
 Source  Stassen 1985: 92

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Discussion
Notes
1. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as In POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING.2. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as In POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING.

2. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages.