Universal 1549: verb-initial ⇒ N Gen
- Original
- With great regularity possessor NPs follow the head NP in verb-initial languages.
- Standardized
- IF word order is verb-initial, THEN possessor NPs follow the head NP.
- Keywords
- order, verb-initial, attributive, noun
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unknown
- Source
- unpublished statements of Keenan’s, reproduced in D.Payne 1990: 14
- Counterexamples
