Universal #1029

Legacy number: 1029

 Number  1025
 Original  If a language has a parts-of speech system of types 1-2/3, then it does not allow variation in the order of Head and Modifier within the predicate phrase.
 Standardized  IF there is a parts-of speech system of types 1-2/3 and Predicate-initial basic word order, THEN there is no variation in the order of Head and Modifier within the predicate phrase.
 Keywords  word class, order, head, modifier
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  no data
 Source  Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997

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1. For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.2. This is the summarized version of ##1027 and 1028.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. 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">.

2. This is the summarized version of <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1027"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> and <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1028"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.