{"id":107,"date":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/universals-archive\/107\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 107: VO ⇒ N Rel & N Adj & N Gen;
OV ⇒ Rel N & Adj N & Gen N"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal 107: VO ⇒ N Rel & N Adj & N Gen;
OV ⇒ Rel N & Adj N & Gen N<\/h3>\n
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Original<\/dt>\n
Nominal modifiers (such as relative, adjectival, and attributive expressions) follow nouns in VO languages and precede nouns in OV languages<\/dd>\n
Standardized<\/dt>\n
IF basic order is VO , THEN relative clauses, attributive adjectives, and attributive nouns follow their head nouns.
IF basic order is OV, THEN relative clauses, attributive adjectives, and attributive nouns precede their head nouns.<\/dd>\n
Keywords<\/dt>\n
order, OV, VO, verb, object, noun, modifier, relative clause, attributive, genitive, adjective<\/dd>\n
Domain<\/dt>\n
syntax<\/dd>\n
Type<\/dt>\n
implication<\/dd>\n
Status<\/dt>\n
achronic<\/dd>\n
Quality<\/dt>\n
statistical<\/dd>\n
Basis<\/dt>\n
sample of 30 languages in Greenberg 1963<\/a>; languages in Lehmann 1973<\/a><\/dd>\n
Source<\/dt>\n
W. P. Lehmann 1971<\/a>: 19, W. P. Lehmann 1972<\/a>: 276-7, W. P. Lehmann 1973<\/a>: 48; claimed also in Pinnow 1960<\/a>: 96-97, Greenberg 1963<\/a>: 85-90, Keenan 1978a<\/a>: 115, Downing 1978<\/a>: 383<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Counterexamples<\/dt>\n
Chinese (Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan): SVO & Rel N; Persian (Iranian, IE), Bengali (Indic, IE); Georgian (S. Caucasian): SOV & N Rel; Classical Tibetan (Tibeto-Karen, Sino-Tibetan); Nama (Khoisan); Quechua (Andean), Papago (Tepiman, Uto-Aztecan); Turkish (Turkic, Altaic): all have both preposed and postposed relative clauses (Downing 1978).Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian) and possibly other Philippine languages are verb-initial and have both prenominal and postnominal Rel (Keenan 1985: 144).Woods Cree (Algonquian): VO & Gen N (Starks 1987: 225).Guajajara (Tupi): VO & N Rel & Gen N & N A (Harrison 1983, 1986).Tigre (Semitic, Afroasiatic): SOV & A N & N Gen (Dryer 2000). Burmese (Burman): SOV & N A (Foster & Hofling 1987), cf. #1616.Mende (Mande, Niger-Congo): SOV & N Rel (Foster & Hofling 1987), cf. #1616.see also counterexamples to #56. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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