Universal #1543

Legacy number: 1543

 Number  1539
 Original  In verb-initial languages, coordinate sentences are commonly expressed as [S and S]. [S, S and] is not attested.
 Standardized  IF word order is verb-initial, THEN coordinate sentences are commonly expressed as [S and S], and not as [S, S and].
 Formula  verb-initial ⇒ [S and S];
verb-initial ⇒ ¬ [S, S and]
 Keywords  order, verb-initial, coordination,
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  unknown
 Source  unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990

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Discussion
Notes
Perhaps the existence of overt coordinate conjunctions at the S level, especially ‘OR’, is less well attested than in verb medial languages (D. Payne 1990: 12).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Perhaps the existence of overt coordinate conjunctions at the S level, especially 'OR', is less well attested than in verb medial languages (D.Payne 1990)