Universal #103

Legacy number: 103

 Number  103
 Original  Agreement should preferably occur in marked rather than unmarked construction types, e. g. with appositive rather than attributive adjectives.
 Standardized  IF there is agreement in unmarked construction types (e.g. with attributive adjectives as targets), THEN there is also agreement in corresponding marked construction types (e.g. with appositive adjectives as targets).
 Keywords  attributive adjective, appositive, agreement, markedness
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  languages in Moravcsik 1988
 Source  Moravcsik 1988, Plank 1991c: 536 (review)

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