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Universal 907:

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Universal 907:

Original
Adpositions may encode the valency-bound syntactic core relations of subject and object and perhaps attribute only if languages dispense with morphological case marking altogether.
Standardized
IF adpositions encode the syntactic core relations of subject, object, and perhaps attribute, THEN no grammatical relations are encoded by morphological case.
Keywords
case, adposition
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Plank 1985: 231
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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