Universal #1024

Legacy number: 1024

 Number  1020
 Original  If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-3/4 and has Predicate-final word order, then it has ModifierHead basic word order within the term phrase, 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 and basic word order is Predicate-final, THEN there is ModifierHead basic word order within the term phrase (unless the potential ambiguity arising from a deviant order is 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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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">.