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Universal 440: SOV ⇒ SO Neg V v SOV Neg

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Universal 440: SOV ⇒ SO Neg V v SOV Neg

Original
In SOV languages the negation is commonly placed before or after the verb.
Standardized
IF basic order is SOV, THEN SO Neg V or SOV Neg.
Keywords
order, SOV, negation
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 345 languages in Dryer 1988b
Source
Dryer 1988b
Counterexamples
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    1. SONegV (found in 39 languages/15 families out of 117 languages/23 families) and SOVNeg (found in 64 languages/18 families out of 117 languages/23 families).There is no evidence to support the widely accepted view (cf. W. Lehmann 1973, here #15) that SOV languages normally place the negative after the verb.2. See #109 for an SVO-languages correlation.

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