Universal 280:
- Original
- In all languages, the nouns which are marked with a special possessive marker do not occur with possessive pronouns.
- Standardized
- IF nouns take possessive affixes, THEN these nouns do not occur with possessive pronouns.
- Keywords
- noun, possession, possessive affix, possessive pronoun
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Uspensky
- Counterexamples