Universal #1642
Legacy number: 1642
| Number | 1637 |
| Original | For serial verb constructions, the languages where heads precede complements are far more prone to verb serialization than those where heads follow complements. In fact, most head-final languages do not employ serial verb constructions. |
| Standardized | IF basic order is head-final, THEN there are no serial verb constructions. |
| Formula | head-final ⇒ serial verb constructions |
| Keywords | order, head-final, serial verb |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | languages surveyed by Shiller 1990 |
| Source | Shiller 1990: 403, cited in Baker 1996: 505 |
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