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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