Universal 1536:
- Original
- In verb-initial languages, there is a tendency for many types of subordinate clauses to be finite.
- Standardized
- IF word order is verb-initial, THEN subordinate clauses tend to be finite.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, subordinate clause, finiteness
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990
- Counterexamples