Universal #1405
Legacy number: 1405
| Number | 1401 |
| Original | If a language has either of the orderings (S ADV V X) or (S V X ADV), then it will have both of them one being normative for a large majority of adverbial sub-types, the other being normative for the remainder of adverbial subtypes. |
| Standardized | If a language has either of the orderings (S ADV V X) or (S V X ADV), then it will have both of them one being normative for a large majority of adverbial sub-types, the other being normative for the remainder of adverbial subtypes. |
| Keywords | order, adverbial |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978] |
| Source | Sanders 1972: 118, Sanders 1978: 74 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic): S V O Adv (besides V S O Adv) but never S Adv V X) (F. Kammerzell, p.c.)
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