Universal #347

Legacy number: 347

 Number  346
 Original  If the order OV is not recessive, the order SV is not recessive as well.
 Standardized  IF the order OV is not recessive, THEN the order SV is not recessive as well.
 Keywords  order, verb, subject, object
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Notes
Recessive order is the order which does not occur in a particular language, or its frequency in texts is near zero.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Recessive order is the order which does not occur in a particular language, or its frequency in texts is near zero.