Universal 1532: verb-initial ⇒ agglutination V polysynthesis
- Original
- Verb-initial languages may be agglutinative and polysynthetic.
- Standardized
- IF basic order is verb-initial, THEN the morphology may be agglutinative or polysynthetic .
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, agglutination, poysynthesis
- Domain
- morphology, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990: 11
- Counterexamples
Note wording: MAY be agglutinative or polysynthetic. Is that supposed to mean: Verb-initiality licenses agglutination or polysynthesis, but doesn’t really imply it.