Universal #1320

Legacy number: 1320

 Number  1316
 Original  If a language has long scrambling, it also has short scrambling.
 Standardized  IF there is long scrambling, THEN there is short scrambling.
 Formula  long scrambling ⇒ short scrambling
 Keywords  order, scrambling
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 23 languages in Corver & Riemsdijk 1997
 Source  Corver & Riemsdijk 1997: 67

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Discussion
Notes
1. SHORT SCRAMBLING: those types of scrambling in which the scrambled element remains with in the domain of its head.LONG SCRAMBLING: cases in which the scrambled element appears outside the domain of its head.2. The domain of the verb is IP or CP (i.e. the clause with the complementizer if there is one, without it if there is not one). Similarly the domain of the N is the determiner phrase, DP. The domain of the adjectives and preposition is the projection of the lexical adjectival or prepositional head together with all their functional heads.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. SHORT SCRAMBLING: those types of scrambling in which the scrambled element remains with in the domain of its head. LONG SCRAMBLING: cases in which the scrambled element appears outside the domain of its head.

2. The domain of the verb is IP or CP (i.e. the clause with the complementizer if there is one, without it if there is not one). Similarly the domain of the N is the determiner phrase, DP. The domain of the adjectives and preposition is the projection of the lexical adjectival or prepositional head together with all their functional heads.