Universal #128

Legacy number: 128

 Number  128
 Original  Of the two arguments in transitive ANCs, the one most likely to lose its sentential dependent-marking and head-marking is the A (except for the marginal SENT-POSS type).
 Standardized  IF in transitive action nominalizations the non-Agent argument loses the dependent-marking or head-marking that it has in sentential constructions, THEN the Agent argument will lose it too, except in the marginal SENT-POSS type of action nominalizations.
 Keywords  nominalization, dependent-marking, head-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993
 Source  Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 64 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=4"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">); Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 10, 44

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Discussion
Counterexamples
SENT-POSS type
Notes
1. “A” means Agent, as in the terminology of Dixon : S, P, A.2. SENT-POSS: sentential Possessive subtype of the ergative-possessive type (ERG-POSS) of the nominalization types, where the A retains its sentential marking. 3. Cf. #443.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. "A" means Agent, as in the terminology of Dixon: S, P, A.

2. SENT-POSS: sentential Possessive subtype of the ergative-possessive type (ERG-POSS) of the nominalization types, where the A retains its sentential marking.

3. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=443"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">