{"id":495,"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\/495\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 493: QSent ⇒ prepositions;
SentQ ⇒ postpositions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal 493: QSent ⇒ prepositions;
SentQ ⇒ postpositions<\/h3>\n
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Original<\/dt>\n
With well more than chance frequency, when question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference to the sentence as a whole, if initial, such elements are found in prepositional languages, and, if final, in postpositional.<\/dd>\n
Standardized<\/dt>\n
When question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference to the sentence as a whole,
IF they are initial, THEN there are prepositions, and
IF they are final, THEN there are postpositions.<\/dd>\n
Keywords<\/dt>\n
order, sentence type, interrogative, question particle, question affix, preposition, postposition<\/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
30 languages of Greenberg 1963<\/a> sample<\/dd>\n
Source<\/dt>\n
Greenberg 1963<\/a>: 82, #9<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Counterexamples<\/dt>\n
Yoruba (Defoid, Benue-Congo), Thai (Daic) have final Q particles and are prepositional; Lithuanian (Baltic, Indo-European) has initial Q particles and is postpositional (Greenberg 1963: 81);Cora (Uto-Aztecan) has initial Q particles, but postpositions;Yaitepec Chatino, Pe\u00f1oles Mixtec, Trique (all Oto-Manguean), and Huave (isolate) have final Q particles but are prepositional;Isthmus Zapotec (Oto-Manguean) has an optional initial Q particle, obligatory final Q particle and is prepositional (Pickett 1983: 540)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Universal 493: QSent ⇒ prepositions;SentQ ⇒ postpositions Original With well more than chance frequency, when question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference…<\/p>\n

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