Universal #1535
Legacy number: 1535
| Number | 1531 |
| Original | Verb-initial languages evidence significant prefixing, though normally there is some suffixing as well. There is a possibility of ambi-fixing (discontinuous affixes), and a somewhat greater than chance tendency for discontinuous demonstratives. |
| Standardized | IF word order is verb-initial, THEN there is significant prefixing [more than with other basic orders?], though normally there is some suffixing as well; and there is a possibility of ambi-fixing (discontinuous affixes), and a somewhat greater than chance tendency for discontinuous demonstratives. |
| Formula | verb-initial ⇒ prefixes |
| Keywords | order, verb-initial, affix-order, prefix, demonstrative |
| Domain | morphology, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | unknown |
| Source | unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990: 11 |
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