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

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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.