The CSS WG has resolved to restrict the overflow-alignment syntax to avoid ambiguities when used in the place-xx shorthand.
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1446#event-1125715434
Due to this decision, the new CSS syntax impose that the 'overflow' keyword must precede the 'self-position' or 'left' or 'right' keywords.
Comment 1 by jfernan...@igalia.com
, Jan 16 2018