Universal #130

Legacy number: 130

 Number  130
 Original  Head-dependent word order is the same in ANCs and non-derived NPs.
 Standardized  IF heads precede/follow dependents in non-derived noun phrases, THEN they will also precede/follow them in action nominalizations.
 Keywords  nominalization, order
 Domain  syntax
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993
 Source  Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 64 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=2"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">); Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 43

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Discussion
Counterexamples
some Kwa languages (Niger-Congo) (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: section 9.2)
Notes
1. Cf. #446: Complement-balancing languages favour assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs, while complement-deranking languages favour retention of sentential marking in ANCs.2. Givón (1970: 405) observes that “when a language develops a nominalization pattern for a complex verb phrase, it maintains in the nominalization the same syntactic order which held in the verb phrase itself.” But here the model for ANCs is claimed to be the basic NP rather than the basic VP.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=446"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">: Complement-balancing languages favour assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs, while complement-deranking languages favour retention of sentential marking in ANCs.

2. Givón (Givón 1970: 405) observes that "when a language develops a nominalization pattern for a complex verb phrase, it maintains in the nominalization the same syntactic order which held in the verb phrase itself." But here the model for ANCs is claimed to be the basic NP rather than the basic VP.