Universal #1052
Legacy number: 1052
| Number | 1048 |
| Original | If word order is SOV, then there are no preclitics. If word order is VSO, then there are no postclitic question markers. |
| Standardized | IF word order is SOV, THEN there are no preclitics. IF word order is VSO, THEN there are no postclitic question markers. |
| Formula | SOV ⇒ ¬preclitics; VSO ⇒ ¬postclitic question markers |
| Keywords | order, interrogative sentence, question marker, clitic |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976 |
| Source | Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 13 |
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