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Universal 163:
- Original
- No language uses different dative or spatial function markers for affirmative and negative clause.
- Standardized
- Overt marking of dative or spatial functions does not alternate depending on the polarity (positive/negative) of the clause.
- Keywords
- indirect object, spatial complement, affirmation, negation
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
- Source
- inferred from Blansitt 1988: 181
- Counterexamples
Presumably the idea is that polarity (positive/negative) may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.