Universal #91
Legacy number: 91
| Number | 91 |
| Original | IF a language has Prep word order, then if the adjective follows the noun, the relative clause follows the noun. |
| Standardized | IF there are prepositions, THEN IF the adjective follows the noun, THEN the relative clause follows the noun. |
| Formula | Prep ⇒ (N A ⇒ N Rel) |
| Keywords | preposition, order, noun, adjective, relative clause |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | nested implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 350 languages in Hawkins 1983 |
| Source | Hawkins 1983: 74 |
Discussion
Notes
1. Derived by transitivity from ##69 and 175.2. Dryer 1988: 198: “There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Adposition-Noun and Adjective-Noun order.”3. For postpositional languages, all four co-occurrences are productively attested: Postp => ((A N v N A) & (Rel N v N Rel).4. Since the 1990s, Hawkins has proposed alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).
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2. Dryer 1988: 198: "There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Adposition-Noun and Adjective-Noun order."
3. For postpositional languages, all four co-occurrences are productively attested: Postp ⇒ ((A N v N A) & (Rel N v N Rel).
4. Since the 1990s, Hawkins has proposed alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).