Universal #627

Legacy number: 627

 Number  624
 Original  If a language has Suffixaufnahme, then it has verb-initial or verb-final constituent order.
 Standardized  IF there is Suffixaufnahme, THEN basic order is verb-initial or verb-final.
 Formula  SA ⇒ verb-initial V verb-final
 Keywords  order, verb-initial, verb-final, case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
 Source  Plank 1995

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Kashmiri (Indo-Iranian) could be a problem for this correlation. Its word order is far from simple. According to Zaxar’in & Edelman (1971: 125), it is relatively free, but standard order is Subject-Finite Verb-Object (see Payne 1995).