Universal 132: SENT (ANC) ⇒ SOV & G N

Universal 132: SENT (ANC) ⇒ SOV & G N

Original

Languages with the SENT type of ANCs are to a large extent SOV/GN languages.

Standardized

IF action nominalizations are of the sentential type, with all arguments retaining their sentential dependent-marking, THEN basic order will be SOV and Genitive Noun.

Keywords

nominalization, dependent-marking, order, SOV, attributive, genitive

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, languages surveyed in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996

Source

Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 229, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 11

Counterexamples

Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) and Tongan (Remote Oceanic, E. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), which are verb-initial languages (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993)