Universal #325

Legacy number: 325

 Number  324
 Original  If the verb agrees with subject and object and there are forms with the following arrangement of agreement affixes: s-o-V and s-V-o, then o-V-s 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 s-V-o, THEN they can also occur in the order o-V-s.
 Keywords  verb agreement, subject, object, person, affix-order
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Wolio (Bisayan, W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian) (Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
And how many languages have the implicans as well as the implicatum orders? Can't be many.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
And how many languages have the implicans as well as the implicatum orders? Can't be many.