Universal 157:
- Original
- If an adposition occurs as both object marker and allative marker, it also occurs as dative marker.
- Standardized
- IF an adposition occurs as both an object marker and an allative marker, THEN it also occurs as a dative marker.
- Keywords
- adposition, direct object, indirect object, allative, dative
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
- Source
- Blansitt 1988: 186 (iv)
- Counterexamples
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: An allative is first grammaticalized as dative, then as accusative.