Universal 353:
- Original
- If in a language the dominant order is OS, then the order VS is also dominant.
- Standardized
- IF the dominant order is OS, THEN the order VS is also dominant.
- Keywords
- order, subject, object
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
This universal does not imply a disproportional distribution of different possible word orders.