Universal 282: ¬Gen (noun) ⇒ ¬DO(noun) & ¬OBL(noun)

Universal 282: ¬Gen (noun) ⇒ ¬DO(noun) & ¬OBL(noun)

Original

If a noun does not have genitive, then it does not have forms of direct and oblique objects.

Standardized

IF a noun does not have a genitive, THEN it does not have case forms of direct and oblique objects.

Keywords

noun, case, genitive, direct object, oblique object

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

unspecified

Source

see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Rozdestvenskij

Counterexamples

obviously plenty – if this is what they really mean: nominal case paradigms can certainly include accusatives and datives without including genitives.