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Universal 1385:

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Universal 1385:

Original
No language with free word order will have a clause final auxiliary.
Standardized
IF basic word order is free, THEN an auxiliary is clause-initial or clause-medial.
Keywords
auxiliary, order
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
20 languages in SSteele 1978, see Steele 1978: 18
Source
Steele 1978: 42, also cited in Heine 1993: 24
Counterexamples
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    1. According to Steele (1978: 35), all languages with sentence final AUX are rigid SOV languages.2. Cf. #503.

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