Universal #358

Legacy number: 358

 Number  357
 Original  If in a dominant word order VS the only possible forms are the forms of the V-s conjugation, then the forms like V-o are also the only possible ones.
 Standardized  Whenever there is verb agreement with subject and object and basic word order is VS, IF subject agreement markers are always postverbal, THEN object agreement markers are always postverbal too.
 Keywords  order, VS, verb agreement, subject, verb, object, affix-order
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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