Universal #1237

Legacy number: 1237

 Number  1233
 Original  All languages have at least one so-called “primitive” adposition which specifies location. If there is another (or even more) complex form to indicate local expression, it will always be drawn from that simple one.
 Standardized  All languages have at least one so-called “primitive” adposition which specifies location.
IF there is complex form for local expression, THEN there is also a simple adposition indicating location and the complex form is drawn from it.
 Formula  complex form (locative) ⇒ from simple adposition (locative)
 Keywords  location, adposition
 Domain  syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 50 languages in Kahr 1975
 Source  Kahr 1975: 25-26; 42-43

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See also #569.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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