Universal 407: (person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) ⇒ (person marker (possessee) = person marker (TR))

Universal 407: (person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) ⇒ (person marker (possessee) = person marker (TR))

Original

If person marking in possessed nouns and intransitive verbs is phonologically identical, this will also be the case for possessed nouns and transitive verbs.

Standardized

IF person marking in possessed nouns and intransitive verbs is phonologically identical, THEN this will also be true for possessed nouns and transitive verbs.

Keywords

noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)

Source

Walter 1981: 113, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47

Counterexamples