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Universal 127:

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Universal 127:

Original
No language has syntactic means (dependent marking, head marking, word order) which are exclusively used in ANCs.
Standardized
IF any kinds of overt marking (dependent-marking, head-marking, word order) are used in action nominalizations, THEN they are also used in other constructions.
Keywords
nominalization, order, dependent-marking, head-marking
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993; European languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996
Source
Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 64 (), 251; Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996 1996: 6, 40
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. ANC: action nominal construction.2. In all languages ANCs involve marking (both dependent-marking and head-marking) which is also used either in finite clauses or in possessive NPs.3. An instantiation of the general principle that marked constructions are always modeled on more basic constructions.

    1. May 2020

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