Universal #597

Legacy number: 597

 Number  594
 Original  If in a language the temporal order of syntactic constituents that describe events symbolizes anything about the actual order in which these events are said to take place, the symbolism is iconic in that the earlier-mentioned event is to be taken as the one that takes place earlier.
 Standardized  IF the temporal order of syntactic constituents that describe events symbolizes anything about the actual order in which these events are said to take place, THEN the symbolism is iconic in that the earlier-mentioned event is to be taken as the one that takes place earlier.
 Keywords  order, iconicity
 Domain  syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1980: 28

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