Implicational Universals
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:36PM
Implicational universals are linguistic universals that relate a property of a language to another property. The existence of one property serves as the precondition for the other. An example is Greenberg’s Universal 3: ‘Languages with dominant VSO order are always prepositional.’ (typology)
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