Universal 1397:
- Original
- No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as case prefixes.
- Standardized
- Adverbial case affixes are always suffixes.
- Keywords
- adverbial, case, affix, prefix, suffix
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978]
- Source
- Sanders 1972: 115, Sanders 1978: 71
- Counterexamples
1. This can be expressed as an implication:IF an affix is not a suffix, THEN it is not an adverbial case marker. 2. Sanders 1972: 115 (1978: 71): “This generalization about adverbial case affixation would appear to be reducible to a much more general observation about the ordering of all case affixes relative to their stems:All case affixes are suffixes.” (see also #170)