Universal #1022

Legacy number: 1022

 Number  1018
 Original  If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-2/3, then it has predicate-initial or predicate-final basic word order.
 Standardized  IF the parts-of speech system is of types 1-2/3, THEN basic word order is predicate-initial or predicate-final.
 Keywords  word class, order
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  no data
 Source  Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997

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Discussion
Notes
For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=248"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.