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Universal 1129:

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Universal 1129:

Original
If there is incorporation, then the syntactic relations between the complex of incorporated and incorporator and its absolute complements are of an appositive kind.
Standardized
IF there is noun/pronoun incorporation, THEN the relationship between the verbal complex (including the incorporated noun/pronoun) and an absolute NP corresponding to the incorporated noun/pronoun is appositive.
Keywords
incorporation, apposition
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages in Humboldt 1836
Source
Humboldt 1836, as interpreted in Plank 1994b: 248
Counterexamples

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    FP
    1. May 2020

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