\n- Original<\/dt>\n
- If a language has dominant order VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative sentences, there is never such an invariant rule.<\/dd>\n
- Standardized<\/dt>\n
- IF basic order in declarative sentences is VSO, THEN interrogative words or phrases always occupy the first position in interrogative word questions.<\/p>\n
IF basic order is SOV, THEN there is never such an invariant rule.<\/dd>\n
- Keywords<\/dt>\n
- order, sentence type, interrogative, interrogative word, VSO, SOV, wh-movement<\/dd>\n
- Domain<\/dt>\n
- syntax<\/dd>\n
- Type<\/dt>\n
- implication<\/dd>\n
- Status<\/dt>\n
- achronic<\/dd>\n
- Quality<\/dt>\n
- absolute (for Greenberg), statistical (for Ultan)<\/dd>\n
- Basis<\/dt>\n
- 30 languages of Greenberg 1963<\/a> sample<\/dd>\n
- Source<\/dt>\n
- Greenberg 1963<\/a>: 83, #12, Ultan 1978c<\/a>: 231<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n- Counterexamples<\/dt>\n
- For the first part: Samoan (Remote Oceanic, E. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Sango (Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo) (Ultan 1978c: 231).For the second part: Yaqui, Huichol (both Uto-Aztecan), Isthmus Mixe, Chimalapa Zoque (both Mixe-Zoquean) are SOV languages, but they do front the question words (Pickett 1983: 539).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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