Universal #1126

Legacy number: 1126

 Number  1122
 Original  If predicates can incorporate their arguments (i.e., verbs their subjects and objects), then head nouns can incorporate their attributive clauses.
 Standardized  IF predicates can incorporate their arguments (i.e., verbs their subjects and objects), THEN head nouns can incorporate their attributive clauses.
 Keywords  incorporation, subject, object, verb, attribute
 Domain  morphology, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Humboldt 1836
 Source  Humboldt 1836, as interpreted in Plank 1994b: 246

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Discussion
Notes
This is probably a misinterpretation. Humboldt can also be read as merely observing that incorporating attibutive clauses into head nouns (especially in languages lacking relative pronouns or appropriate complementizers) is also a possibility, regardless of noun/pronoun incorporation into verbs.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
This is probably a misinterpretation. Humboldt can also be read as merely observing that incorporating attibutive clauses into head nouns (especially in languages lacking relative pronouns or appropriate complementizers) is also a possibility, regardless of noun/pronoun incorporation into verbs.