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Universal 1980:

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Universal 1980:

Original
rigid type III (verb-final) …
Sequences of events of the ‘go, do, and return’ type appear as ‘having done, return’ rather than ‘go and do’ as in English and many other verb-medial languages.
Standardized
IF basic order is OV, THEN sequences of events of the ‘go, do, and return’ type are expressed as ‘having done, return’.
IF basic order is VO, THEN sequences of events of the ‘go, do, and return’ type are expressed as ‘go and do’.
Keywords
order, OV, VO, clause combining, subordination, coordination
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
impressionistic, based on Greenberg 1963 sample
Source
Ferguson 1972: 107
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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