{"id":1617,"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\/1617\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 1613: VO & ModifierN ⇒ Modifier-N agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal 1613: VO & ModifierN ⇒ Modifier-N agreement <\/h3>\n
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Original<\/dt>\n
Concord is common among VO languages, particularly when the order of constituents is modifier-Noun and thus inconsistent with the basic VO order.<\/dd>\n
Standardized<\/dt>\n
Whenever basic order is VO, IF the modifier precedes the noun, THEN there tends to be agreement between noun and modifier. <\/dd>\n
Keywords<\/dt>\n
order, VO, agreement, NP, modifier, attribution, relative clause, adjective<\/dd>\n
Domain<\/dt>\n
inflection, syntax<\/dd>\n
Type<\/dt>\n
implication<\/dd>\n
Status<\/dt>\n
achronic<\/dd>\n
Quality<\/dt>\n
statistical<\/dd>\n
Basis<\/dt>\n
13 SVO languages: Yoruba (Defoid, Niger-Congo), Thai (Kam-Thai), Greek (Hellenic, IE), Italian, Romanian (both Romance, IE), Guaran\u00ed (Tupi), Finnish (Uralic), Norwegian (Germanic, IE), Malay (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Swahili (Central Eastern Bantu, Niger-Congo), Fulani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), Serbocroatian (Slavic, IE), and Modern Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic).
6 V-initial languages: Welsh (Celtic, IE), Maori (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Malagasy (Barito, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Papago (Uto-Aztecan), Maya (Mayan), and Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic).<\/dd>\n
Source<\/dt>\n
Foster & Hofling 1987<\/a>: 489<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Counterexamples<\/dt>\n
1. V-initial & AdjN but no agreement between N and Adj: Papago and Maya, though agreement is optional in the latter. 2. SVO & GenN but no genitive agreeing with a possessed noun: Finnish, Guaran\u00ed, and Norwegian. In Guaran\u00ed, however, the possessed noun is marked by a possessive affix, and in Finnish and Norwegian, there is a genitive case marker to indicate the NP relations.(Foster & Hofling 1987)3. Note that demonstratives, determiners, numerals, and interrogative adjectives seem to be inconsistent with a basic word order and tend to precede the the modified noun. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Universal 1613: VO & ModifierN ⇒ Modifier-N agreement Original Concord is common among VO languages, particularly when the order of constituents is modifier-Noun and thus…<\/p>\n

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