Universal #997

Legacy number: 997

 Number  993
 Original  Languages with absolute consecutive deranking have either SOV or VSO .
 Standardized  IF there is absolute deranking, THEN basic order is either SOV or VSO.
 Formula  absolute deranking ⇒ SOV v VSO;
absolute deranking ⇒ ¬ SVO
 Keywords  order, SOV, VSO, SVO, deranking
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 110 languages
 Source  Stassen 1984: 173, Stassen 1985: 93

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Discussion
Notes
1. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages. 2. This is a more general form of ##994, 995.3. Cf. ##990, 986.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages.

2. This is a more general form of <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=994"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=995"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

3. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=990"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=986"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.