Universal #66

Legacy number: 66

 Number  66
 Original  If a language has OV word order, then if the adjective precedes the noun, the genitive precedes the noun.
 Standardized  IF basic order is OV, THEN IF the adjective precedes the noun, THEN the genitive precedes the noun.
 Formula  OV ⇒ (A N ⇒ GN)
 Keywords  order, OV, verb, object, adjective, noun, attributive, genitive
 Domain  syntax
 Type  nested implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical (according to author absolute)
 Basis  sample of 350 languages in Hawkins 1983
 Source  Hawkins 1983: 64

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Discussion
Counterexamples
SOV & AN & NG: Tigre (S. Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (Dryer 2000).
Notes
1. #66 is virtually identical to #65.2. Cf. Greenberg’s own statement #5, with the implicans a conjunction. 3. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).4. 1. Dryer 1988: 191: “There is no evidence of any relationship between the order of Verb and Object and the order of Adjective and Noun”.Dryer 1988: 200: “There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Genitive-Noun and Adjective-Noun order.”
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=66"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> is virtually identical to <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=65"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

2. Cf. Greenberg's own statement #5, with the implicans a conjunction.

3. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).

4.Dryer 1988: 191: "There is no evidence of any relationship between the order of Verb and Object and the order of Adjective and Noun." Dryer 1988: 200: "There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Genitive-Noun and Adjective-Noun order."