Universal #1986
Legacy number: 1986
| Number | 1980 |
| Original | rigid type III (verb-final) ... Sequences of events of the 'go, do, and return' type appear as 'having done, return' rather than 'go and do' as in English and many other verb-medial languages. |
| Standardized | IF basic order is OV, THEN sequences of events of the 'go, do, and return' type are expressed as 'having done, return'. IF basic order is VO, THEN sequences of events of the 'go, do, and return' type are expressed as 'go and do'. |
| Keywords | order, OV, VO, clause combining, subordination, coordination |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | impressionistic, based on Greenberg 1963 sample |
| Source | Ferguson 1972: 107 |
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