Universal #1401

Legacy number: 1401

 Number  1397
 Original  No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as case prefixes.
 Standardized  Adverbial case affixes are always suffixes.
 Keywords  adverbial, case, affix, prefix, suffix
 Domain  inflection
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978]
 Source  Sanders 1972: 115, Sanders 1978: 71

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Discussion
Notes
1. This can be expressed as an implication:IF an affix is not a suffix, THEN it is not an adverbial case marker. 2. Sanders 1972: 115 (1978: 71): “This generalization about adverbial case affixation would appear to be reducible to a much more general observation about the ordering of all case affixes relative to their stems:All case affixes are suffixes.” (see also #170)
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. This can be expressed as an implication:
IF an affix is not a suffix, THEN it is not an adverbial case marker.

2. Sanders 1972: 115 (Sanders 1978: 71): "This generalization about adverbial case affixation would appear to be reducible to a much more general observation about the ordering of all case affixes relative to their stems:
All case affixes are suffixes." (see also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=170"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)