Universal #127

Legacy number: 127

 Number  127
 Original  No language has syntactic means (dependent marking, head marking, word order) which are exclusively used in ANCs.
 Standardized  IF any kinds of overt marking (dependent-marking, head-marking, word order) are used in action nominalizations, THEN they are also used in other constructions.
 Keywords  nominalization, order, dependent-marking, head-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993; European languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996
 Source  Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 64 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=3"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">), 251; Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996 1996: 6, 40

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Discussion
Notes
1. ANC: action nominal construction.2. In all languages ANCs involve marking (both dependent-marking and head-marking) which is also used either in finite clauses or in possessive NPs.3. An instantiation of the general principle that marked constructions are always modeled on more basic constructions.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. ANC: action nominal construction.

2. In all languages ANCs involve marking (both dependent-marking and head-marking) which is also used either in finite clauses or in possessive NPs.

3. An instantiation of the general principle that marked constructions are always modeled on more basic constructions.