Universal #999

Legacy number: 999

 Number  995
 Original  If a language has posterior consecutive deranking and its word order is SVO, then it has conditional deranking.
 Standardized  IF there is posterior consecutive deranking and basic order is SVO, THEN there is conditional deranking.
 Formula  posterior consecutive deranking & SVO ⇒ conditional deranking
 Keywords  order, SVO, deranking
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 110 languages
 Source  Stassen 1985: 92

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Discussion
Notes
1. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as In POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING.2. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the consecutive chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as In POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING.

2. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the consecutive chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking.