Universal #348

Legacy number: 348

 Number  347
 Original  If VS order is not recessive, neither is VO order.
 Standardized  IF VS order is not recessive, THEN VO order is not recessive either.
 Keywords  order, verb, subject, object
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

← Back to Universals Archive

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.