Universal #1403
Legacy number: 1403
| Number | 1399 |
| Original | All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents. For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the most "normal", most prosaic, and implicationally most unmarked ordering for such constructions is in a non-sentence-initial position-following either the superficial subject, or the superficial object, or both. |
| Standardized | All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents. For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the most "normal", most prosaic, and implicationally most unmarked ordering for such constructions is in a non-sentence-initial position-following either the superficial subject, or the superficial object, or both. |
| Keywords | order, sentence, adverbial |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978] |
| Source | Sanders 1972: 116-7, Sanders 1978: 72-74 |
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