Universal #1023

Legacy number: 1023

 Number  1019
 Original  If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-3/4, then it does not allow variation in the ordering of Subject and Predicate, unless the potential ambiguity arising from a deviant order is solved by morphological means.
 Standardized  IF the parts-of speech system is of types 1-3/4, THEN there is no variation in the ordering of Subject and Predicate (unless the potential ambiguity arising from solved by morphological means).
 Keywords  word class, order
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  no data
 Source  Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997

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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">.