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Universal 1492:
- Original
- Incorporated nouns attach to the right of the verb stem in verb-initial languages.
- Standardized
- IF basic word order is verb-initial, THEN nouns attach to the right of the verb stem when incorporated.
- Keywords
- incorporation, order, verb-initial
- Domain
- morphology, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages with object-incorporation, including Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), Yana (Hokan), Kitonemuk (Uto-Aztecan), Gunbalang (Gunwingguan, Australian), Onondaga (Iroquoian), Aztec (Uto-Aztecan), Tongan, Fijian (both Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Malagasy (Barito, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Turkish (Altaic), and others
- Source
- Mardirussian 1975: 386
- Counterexamples
