Universal #135

Legacy number: 135

 Number  135
 Original  Pronominal Subjects and Agents are more likely to genitivize in ANCs than non-pronominal ones.
 Standardized  IF non-pronominal subjects (S) and agents (A) are genitivized in action nominalizations, THEN pronominal ones are genitivized as well.
 Keywords  nominalization, case, genitive, pronoun<br>
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993
 Source  inferred from Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 257

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