{"id":497,"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\/497\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 495: VSO &rArr; no Q positioned relative to a particular word in the sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Universal 495: VSO &rArr; no Q positioned relative to a particular word in the sentence<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dt>Original<\/dt>\n<dd>Question particles or affixes, when specified in position by reference to a particular word in the sentence, almost always follow that word. Such particles do not occur in languages with dominant order VSO.<\/dd>\n<dt>Standardized<\/dt>\n<dd>When the position of question particles or affixes is specified relative to a particular word in the sentence, they almost always follow that word. <\/p>\n<p>IF dominant order is VSO, THEN there are no such question particles or affixes.<\/dd>\n<dt>Keywords<\/dt>\n<dd>order, sentence type, interrogative, VSO, question marker<\/dd>\n<dt>Domain<\/dt>\n<dd>inflection, syntax<\/dd>\n<dt>Type<\/dt>\n<dd>implication<\/dd>\n<dt>Status<\/dt>\n<dd>achronic<\/dd>\n<dt>Quality<\/dt>\n<dd>statistical<\/dd>\n<dt>Basis<\/dt>\n<dd>30 languages of <a class=\"reference\" href=\"..\/ref\/source_ref.php#Greenberg_1963\">Greenberg 1963<\/a> sample<\/dd>\n<dt>Source<\/dt>\n<dd><a class=\"reference\" href=\"..\/references#Greenberg_1963\">Greenberg 1963<\/a>: 82, #10<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Counterexamples<\/dt>\n<dd>Coatzospan Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), which is VSO but has the Q particle suffixed to the constituent being questioned (Pickett 1983: 537).Agta (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Chontal (Hokan), Diola (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), Scottish Gaelic (Celtic, Indo-European) are all VSO and do make use of Q particles (Ultan 1978c: 232, who is not, however, very specific as to these Q particles being positioned relative to a particular word).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal 495: VSO &rArr; no Q positioned relative to a particular word in the sentence Original Question particles or affixes, when specified in position by&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/universals-archive\/497\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Universal 495: VSO &rArr; no Q positioned relative to a particular word in the sentence<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-universals-archive","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}