Skip to content

Universal 25:

Posted in Universals Archive

Universal 25:

Original
In all languages, if an adnominal nominal preceding the head shows Suffixaufnahme, so does an adnominal nominal of the same type following it, if that order is possible.
Standardized
IF an adnominal nominal preceding the head shows Suffixaufnahme, THEN so does an adnominal nominal of the same type following it, if that order is possible.
Keywords
case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, order
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
Source
Moravcsik 1995: 471, G9
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. Compare with Greenberg’s universal 40 (here #63): “When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses all the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack overt expression of one or all of these categories.”2. See also #26.

    1. May 2020

Comments are closed.