Universal #324

Legacy number: 324

 Number  323
 Original  If the verb agrees with subject and object and there are forms with the following arrangement of agreement affixes: s-o-V and o-V-s, then s-V-o forms occur as well.
 Standardized  Whenever the verb agrees with subject and object, IF the agreement affixes can occur in the orders s-o-V and o-V-s, THEN they can also occur in the order s-V-o.
 Keywords  verb agreement, subject, object, person, affix-order
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Notes
Kozinsky must have known a language for which the implicans is true. They can't be common, though.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Kozinsky must have known a language for which the implicans is true. They can't be common, though.