Universal 991: absolute posterior consecutive deranking ⇒ VSO
- Original
- Languages with absolute posterior consecutive deranking typically prefer VSO word order.
- Standardized
- IF there is absolute posterior consecutive deranking, THEN basic order is VSO.
- Keywords
- order, VSO, deranking
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 110 languages
- Source
- Stassen 1984: 173, Stassen 1985: 93
- Counterexamples
1. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages. 2. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as In POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING.3. Cf. ##985, 989.4. For a more general prediction see #997.