Universal #670

Legacy number: 670

 Number  667
 Original  While languages of all basic order types may have information-question-inversion, SOV languages are less likely than others to have it; they tend more to retain the basic constituent order of simple declarative sentences in information questions.
 Standardized  IF basic word order is SOV, THEN there tends to be no inversion in information questions.
 Formula  SOV ⇒ ¬information-question inversion
 Keywords  order, interrogative sentence, information question, inversion
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  79 languages surveyed in Ultan 1978c
 Source  Ultan 1978c: 231

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