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Universal 351:
- Original
- In a dominant order the subject and the object are juxtaposed, i.e. no verb is placed between them.
- Standardized
- In a dominant order the subject and the object are juxtaposed, uninterrupted by the verb (i.e., SOV, VOS, VSO, OSV, but not SVO, OVS).
- Keywords
- order, verb, object, subject
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
See also #351 and Greenberg’s Universal 1 (here #490).