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Universal 1540:
- Original
- In verb-initial languages, speech act indicators (e.g. question particles, etc.) are normally sentence initial, though other positions are possible.
- Standardized
- IF word order is verb-initial, THEN speech act indicators (e.g. question particles, etc.) are normally sentence initial.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, speech act indicator, question particle
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990
- Counterexamples
