Universal #334

Legacy number: 334

 Number  333
 Original  If verbal suffixes or enclitics which point out the subject and/or object, under some conditions, move from the postverbal position to the preverbal, then one of these conditions will be the preverbal negation.
 Standardized  IF subject or object agreement or cross-reference markers on verb are postverbal, but under certain conditions can appear in preverbal positions, THEN one of these licensing conditions is the presence of preverbal negation.
 Keywords  verb agreement, cross-reference, subject, object, affix-order, clitic, negation
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Notes
implicationally:IF anything else licenses preverbal shifting, THEN preverbal negation licenses it too.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
implicationally:
IF anything else licenses preverbal shifting, THEN preverbal negation licenses it too.