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Universal 1400:

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Universal 1400:

Original
If a language has S (O) V ordering but no SOV orderings, then it will have S (O) ADV V orderings, but no S (O) V ADV orderings.
Standardized
If a language has S (O) V ordering but no SOV orderings, then it will have S (O) ADV V orderings, but no S (O) V ADV orderings.
Keywords
order, verb, object, adverbial
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978]
Source
Sanders 1972: 117, Sanders 1978: 74
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. This is essentially only an alternative formulation of Greenberg’s universal 7 (see #493).2. Sanders 1972: 117 (1978: 74), fn. 6 mentions that the non-occurrence of post-verbal objects may also imply the non-occurrence of [S Adv O V] orderings.

    1. May 2020

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