Universal #351

Legacy number: 351

 Number  350
 Original  In a dominant order the object and the verb are juxtaposed, i.e. no subject is placed between them.
 Standardized  In a dominant order the object and the verb are juxtaposed, uninterrupted by the subject (i.e., SVO, SOV, VOS, OVS, but not VSO, OSV).
 Keywords  order, verb, object, subject
 Domain  syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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