Universal 1414:
- Original
- No language has constructions whose function is to place new topics at the end of the sentence.
- Standardized
- New topics are never placed at the end of the sentence.
- Keywords
- topic, comment, order, focus
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- a sample of 30 languages, see Gundel 1988: 210
- Source
- Gundel 1988: 231
- Counterexamples
Cf. ##382, 1416, 1417.