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Universal 532:
- Original
- It seems probable that in all languages expressions of time and place may appear in the initial positions in the sentence.
- Standardized
- It seems probable that in all languages expressions of time and place may appear in the initial positions in the sentence.
- Keywords
- order
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- sample of 30 languages in Greenberg 1963
- Source
- Greenberg 1963: 104, inferred by Uspensky 1965: 222
- Counterexamples
