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Universal 1637: head-final ⇒ serial verb constructions

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Universal 1637: head-final ⇒ serial verb constructions

Original
For serial verb constructions, the languages where heads precede complements are far more prone to verb serialization than those where heads follow complements. In fact, most head-final languages do not employ serial verb constructions.
Standardized
IF basic order is head-final, THEN there are no serial verb constructions.
Keywords
order, head-final, serial verb
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
languages surveyed by Shiller 1990
Source
Shiller 1990: 403, cited in Baker 1996: 505
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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