Universal #131

Legacy number: 131

 Number  131
 Original  If an ANC retains its sentential head-marking for some argument, it also retains its sentential dependent-marking for the same argument.
 Standardized  IF an argument retains its sentential head-marking in an action nominalization, THEN the same argument will also retain its sentential dependent-marking.
 Keywords  nominalization, head-marking, dependent-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993
 Source  Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 65 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=5"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">); Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 45

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Discussion
Counterexamples
One type of intransitive ANC in Tabasaran (Lezgic, East Caucasian) (see Bogatyrev & Boguslavskaya 1982: 85), also mentioned in Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996: 32, 46.
Notes
In Tabasaran the S may chose between the absolutive and the genitive case, i.e. between retaining dependent-marking or genitivizing, and ANCs retain verbal class agreement with S in the genitive case.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
In Tabasaran the S may chose between the absolutive and the genitive case, i.e. between retaining dependent-marking or genitivizing, and ANCs retain verbal class agreement with S in the genitive case.