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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