Universal 1212:
- Original
- Local cases are preferably expressed by suffixes, and never by infixes.
- Standardized
- IF an affix expresses a local case, THEN it will preferably be a suffix and never an infix.
- Keywords
- case, local, affix, infix, prefix
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
- Source
- Stolz 1992 : 29
- Counterexamples
But in essence implicational:IF an affix is an infix, THEN it does not express a local case.