Universal #359

Legacy number: 359

 Number  358
 Original  If in a language an incorporated nominal direct object precedes the verb stem, then the autonomous subject precedes the predicate.
 Standardized  IF an incorporated nominal direct object precedes the verb stem, THEN the autonomous subject precedes the predicate.
 Keywords  order, incorporation, verb, subject, direct object
 Domain  morphology, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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