Universal #1030

Legacy number: 1030

 Number  1026
 Original  Languages with dominant order VSO and parts-of-speech system of types 1-3/4 always have the adjective after the noun.
 Standardized  IF there is a dominant VSO order and the language has parts-of-speech system of types 1-3/4, THEN the adjective always follows the noun.
 Keywords  word class, order, VSO, adjective, noun
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  no data
 Source  Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997

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Discussion
Notes
1. For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.2. This is the reformulation of Greenberg’s universal 17 (see #56): With overwhelmingly more than chance frequency, languages with dominant order VSO have the adjective after the noun.
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 reformulation of Greenberg's universal 17 (see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=56"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">): With overwhelmingly more than chance frequency, languages with dominant order VSO have the adjective after the noun.