Universal 997: posterior consecutive deranking & VSO ⇒ absolute deranking
- Original
- If a language has posterior consecutive deranking and its word order is VSO, then it has absolute deranking.
- Standardized
- IF there is posterior consecutive deranking and basic order is VSO, THEN there is absolute deranking.
- Keywords
- order, SVO, deranking
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 110 languages
- Source
- Stassen 1985: 92
- Counterexamples
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 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.