Universal #440

Legacy number: 440

 Number  439
 Original  Non-accusative alignment may be associated with verb-initial order.
 Standardized  IF alignment is non-accusative, THEN there will be verb-initial order.
 Formula  non-accusative alignment ⇒ verb-initial
 Keywords  alignment, non-accusative, order, verb-initial
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of Nichols 1992
 Source  Nichols 1992: 113

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Discussion
Notes
Nichols 1990: 113 notes that this is only a hypothesis, and rests on a correlation that may be accidental.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Nichols 1990: 113 notes that this is only a hypothesis, and rests on a correlation that may be accidental.