Rara #121

Legacy number: 121

 Number  121
 Phenomenon  adjective after the noun, rather than mirroring the order of adverb relative to verb, where basic word order is VO and adverb comes before verb
 Found in  Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean)
 Domain  syntax — word order
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  adjective, adverb
 Source  Dryer, Matthew S. (1988). Object–verb order and adjective–noun order: Dispelling a myth. Lingua 74: 185-217; p. 202.
 Violates  one of Greenberg's

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