Universal #1216

Legacy number: 1216

 Number  1212
 Original  Local cases are preferably expressed by suffixes, and never by infixes.
 Standardized  IF an affix expresses a local case, THEN it will preferably be a suffix and never an infix.
 Keywords  case, local, affix, infix, prefix
 Domain  inflection
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
 Source  Stolz 1992 : 29

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But in essence implicational:IF an affix is an infix, THEN it does not express a local case.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
But in essence implicational:
IF an affix is an infix, THEN it does not express a local case.