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Universal 1537:
- Original
- In verb-initial languages, subordinate markers such as complementizers, nominalizers, and subordinate conjunctions precede their clauses.
- Standardized
- IF word order is verb-initial, THEN subordinate markers such as complementizers, nominalizers, and subordinate conjunctions precede their clauses.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, complementizer, nominalizer, subordinate conjunction
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990
- Counterexamples
