Universal 320: nominative/accusative (pronouns) ⇒ nominative/accusative (nouns)

Universal 320: nominative/accusative (pronouns) ⇒ nominative/accusative (nouns)

Original

If personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, then this opposition is relevant for nouns as well.

Standardized

IF personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, THEN nouns have this opposition as well.

Keywords

pronoun, personal pronoun, noun, case, nominative, accusative

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981

Source

Kozinsky 1981

Counterexamples

split case systems.English