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Universal 193: case assign (verb) ⇒ case assign (adposition);
case assign (adposition) ⇒ case assign (verb)

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Universal 193: case assign (verb) ⇒ case assign (adposition);
case assign (adposition) ⇒ case assign (verb)

Original
If in a language verbs assign morphological case, so do adpositions; and vice versa.
Standardized
IF verbs assign morphological case, THEN adpositions assign morphological case.
IF adpositions assign morphological case, THEN verbs assign morphological case.
Keywords
verb, case, adposition
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Moravcsik 1993: 717
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. This means that there is no language where, of the two classes of verb complements and adpositional complements, only one is morphologically case-marked.2. Cf. #194.

    1. May 2020

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