Universal 1026:
- Original
- Languages with dominant order VSO and parts-of-speech system of types 1-3/4 always have the adjective after the noun.
- Standardized
- IF there is a dominant VSO order and the language has parts-of-speech system of types 1-3/4, THEN the adjective always follows the noun.
- Keywords
- word class, order, VSO, adjective, noun
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- no data
- Source
- Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, & Siewierska 1997
- Counterexamples
1. For full reference about types of parts-of-speech systems see # 248.2. This is the reformulation of Greenberg’s universal 17 (see #56): With overwhelmingly more than chance frequency, languages with dominant order VSO have the adjective after the noun.