Universal 167: “direction from” ⇒ “direction to” ⇒ “location” OR FROM ⇒ TO ⇒ AT
- Original
- If a language has a distinct case marker to express “direction to”, it also has one to express “location”; and if it has a distinct case marker to express “direction from”, it also has one to express “direction to”.
- Standardized
- IF there is a distinct case marker to express “direction from”, THEN there will be a distinct case marker to express “direction to”.
IF there is a distinct case marker to express “direction to”, THEN there will be a distinct case marker to express “location”.
- Keywords
- case, semantics
- Domain
- inflection, semantics
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), English, German (both W. Germanic, Indo-European)
- Source
- Moravcsik 1994a: 39
- Counterexamples
