1. Although manner adverbs and other adverbs often pattern similarly, Dryer considers only manner adverbs, because many other kinds of adverbs are interpretable as sentence adverbs and exhibit greater flexibility of word order in many languages (Dryer 1992: 93).2. This universal is a part of Dryer’s Branching Direction Theory (BDT) discussed in Dryer 1992: 108-118.3. Cf. Keenan’s correlation for verb-initial languages: #1558.
1. Although manner adverbs and other adverbs often pattern similarly, Dryer considers only manner adverbs, because many other kinds of adverbs are interpretable as sentence adverbs and exhibit greater flexibility of word order in many languages (Dryer 1992: 93).2. This universal is a part of Dryer’s Branching Direction Theory (BDT) discussed in Dryer 1992: 108-118.3. Cf. Keenan’s correlation for verb-initial languages: #1558.