Universal 198:

Original: No set of case marking elements both precede the head noun and are inseparable from it.
Standardized: IF a relational marker (case, adposition) precedes the head noun, THEN it will not be inseparable from it.
IF a relational marker (case, adposition) is inseparable from the head noun, THEN it will not precede it.
Keywords: case, adposition, head noun
Domain: inflection, syntax
Type: implication
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: Russian (Slavic, IE), Evenki (Tungus), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Amharic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian (all Finnic, Uralic)
Source: Kilby 1981: 115 (B)

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1. Kilby 1981: 121 combines this universal with #197: “Case marking elements which precede the noun phrase are always separable from the head noun, and never participate in agreement.”2. See Greenberg’s universals (here ##1, 4, 8 and 55) discussed in Kilby 1981: 128.

1. May 2020

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