Universal #129

Legacy number: 129

 Number  129
 Original  Either all the arguments in a transitive ANC retain their sentential dependent-marking or at least one of them genitivizes (except for the marginal MIX-type).
 Standardized  In transitive action nominalizations, either all arguments retain their sentential dependent-marking or at least one of them genitivizes, except in the marginal MIX-type.
 Keywords  nominalization, dependent-marking, case, genitive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 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=1"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">), Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 45

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Discussion
Counterexamples
MIX-type
Notes
MIX-type: the S genitivizes, the A becomes an oblique NP (perhaps in the same form as the Agent in passive clauses), while the P retains its sentential dependent-marking.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
MIX-type: the S genitivizes, the A becomes an oblique NP (perhaps in the same form as the Agent in passive clauses), while the P retains its sentential dependent-marking.