Universal #1407

Legacy number: 1407

 Number  1403
 Original  In languages where transitive verbs have suffixes agreeing in definiteness or in person-gender-number with their direct objects, prepositions also have suffixes that agree with their objects in the same categories.
 Standardized  IF transitive verbs have suffixes agreeing in definiteness or in person-gender-number with their direct objects, THEN prepositions also have suffixes that agree with their complements in the same categories.
 Keywords  agreement, verb, object, preposition, definiteness, person, gender, number
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed by Sanders
 Source  Sanders 1972: 100, Sanders 1978: 58

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Discussion
Notes
Presumably more generally: adpositions. What about lgs like French: past participles can agree with (preceding) objects in gender and number (though not person); but no "inflected" prepositions?Does Hungarian have "inflected" postpositions? It ought to, having the right verbal markings.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Presumably more generally: adpositions.

What about lgs like French: past participles can agree with (preceding) objects in gender and number (though not person); but no "inflected" prepositions?

Does Hungarian have "inflected" postpositions? It ought to, having the right verbal markings.