Universal #352

Legacy number: 352

 Number  351
 Original  In a dominant order the subject and the object are juxtaposed, i.e. no verb is placed between them.
 Standardized  In a dominant order the subject and the object are juxtaposed, uninterrupted by the verb (i.e., SOV, VOS, VSO, OSV, but not SVO, OVS).
 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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Discussion
Notes
See also #351 and Greenberg’s Universal 1 (here #490).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=351"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> and Greenberg's Universal 1 (here <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=490"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)