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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