Universal #1762
Legacy number: 1762
| Number | 1757 |
| Original | SOV languages cannot borrow a set of prepositions. |
| Standardized | IF basic word order is SOV, THEN there are no prepositions owing to borrowing. |
| Keywords | borrowing, order, SOV, preposition |
| Domain | lexicon, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | unspecified |
| Source | Bickerton 1981: 50 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Hungarian, SOV, borrowing the German preposition ‘ohne’: Moravcsik 1978: 113 [is only one, not a set].Livonian and Estonian, SOV, borrowing a considerable number of prepositions from Russian (Ehala 1994): Farrar 1998.
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