Universal #1389

Legacy number: 1389

 Number  1385
 Original  No language with free word order will have a clause final auxiliary.
 Standardized  IF basic word order is free, THEN an auxiliary is clause-initial or clause-medial.
 Keywords  auxiliary, order
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  20 languages in SSteele 1978, see Steele 1978: 18
 Source  Steele 1978: 42, also cited in Heine 1993: 24

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Discussion
Notes
1. According to Steele (1978: 35), all languages with sentence final AUX are rigid SOV languages.2. Cf. #503.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. According to Steele 1978: 35, all languages with sentence final AUX are rigid SOV languages.

2. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=503"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">