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 |
Discussion
Notes
implicationally:IF anything else licenses preverbal shifting, THEN preverbal negation licenses it too.
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IF anything else licenses preverbal shifting, THEN preverbal negation licenses it too.