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

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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).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Derived by transitivity from <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=69"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> and <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=175"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

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).