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 |
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
And how many languages have the implicans as well as the implicatum orders? Can't be many.
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