Universal #145
Legacy number: 145
| Number | 145 |
| Original | SOV correlates positively with non-verbal status of predicative adjectives, whereas SVO and VSO have a tendency to favour verbal predicative adjectives. |
| Standardized | IF basic order is SOV, THEN predicative adjectives have non-verbal status, and vice versa. IF basic order is SVO or VSO, THEN predicative adjectives tend to be verbal, and vice versa. |
| Keywords | order, SOV, SVO, VSO, predicative adjective, verb |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | mutual implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | ? |
| Source | Stassen 1992 |
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