Universal #132

Legacy number: 132

 Number  132
 Original  Languages with the SENT type of ANCs are to a large extent SOV/GN languages.
 Standardized  IF action nominalizations are of the sentential type, with all arguments retaining their sentential dependent-marking, THEN basic order will be SOV and Genitive Noun.
 Formula  SENT (ANC) ⇒ SOV & G N
 Keywords  nominalization, dependent-marking, order, SOV, attributive, genitive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, languages surveyed in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996
 Source  Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 229, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 11

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) and Tongan (Remote Oceanic, E. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), which are verb-initial languages (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993)
Notes
Sentential (SENT) type (of nominalization): all arguments in ANCs retain their sentential dependent-marking.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Sentential (SENT) type (of nominalization): all arguments in ANCs retain their sentential dependent-marking.