Universal #1025
Legacy number: 1025
| Number | 1021 |
| Original | If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-3/4 and has Predicate-initial word order, then it has HeadModifier basic word order within the term phrase, unless the potential ambiguity arising from a deviant order is solved by morphological means. |
| Standardized | IF there is a parts-of speech system of types 1-3/4 and Predicate-initial word order, THEN there is HeadModifier 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 |
Discussion
Notes
For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.
Comment
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">.
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