Universal #157

Legacy number: 157

 Number  157
 Original  If an adposition occurs as both object marker and allative marker, it also occurs as dative marker.
 Standardized  IF an adposition occurs as both an object marker and an allative marker, THEN it also occurs as a dative marker.
 Keywords  adposition, direct object, indirect object, allative, dative
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
 Source  Blansitt 1988: 186 (iv)

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Discussion
Notes
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: An allative is first grammaticalized as dative, then as accusative.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: An allative is first grammaticalized as dative, then as accusative.