Universal #1600

Legacy number: 1600

 Number  1596
 Original  Instantiations of AUX* which occur sentence-finally (in surface-order) are limited to languages such as Japanese which are commonly termed ‘rigid verb-final’.
 Standardized  IF AUX occurs in final position (in surface-order), THEN basic order is rigidly verb-final.
 Keywords  order, rigid, verb-final, AUX
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Luiseño (Uto-Aztecan), Lummi (Salish), Egyptian Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), and Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan)
 Source  Steele, Akmajian, Demers, Jelinek, Kitagawa, Oehrle, & Wasow 1981: 143, 155

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Discussion
Notes
Definition of the set AUX* in language-independent terms:1. AUX is a syntactic constituent; 2. AUX contains a specified, i.e. fixed and small, class of elements; 3. These elements occur in a fixed order; 4. AUX must include elements marking tense and/or modality; 5. It may further include elements indicating subject marking, subject agreement, question, evidential, emphasis, aspect, object marking, object agreement, and negation; 6. Insofar as these notional types can be identified across languages, their relative order does not follow from any general principle(s). (Steele et al. 1981: 155-156)See also ##503, 1386.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Definition of the set AUX* in language-independent terms:
1. AUX is a syntactic constituent;
2. AUX contains a specified, i.e. fixed and small, class of elements;
3. These elements occur in a fixed order; 4. AUX must include elements marking tense and/or modality;
5. It may further include elements indicating subject marking, subject agreement, question, evidential, emphasis, aspect, object marking, object agreement, and negation;
6. Insofar as these notional types can be identified across languages, their relative order does not follow from any general principle(s). (Steele et al. 1981: 155-156) See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=503"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1386"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.