Universal #1615
Legacy number: 1615
| Number | 1611 |
| Original | All languages with verb-patient agreement, regardless of type, also have verb agreement with the agent as well. |
| Standardized | IF there is verb agreement with patient, THEN there is verb agreement with agent, regardless of alignment type. |
| Formula | verb-patient agreement ⇒ verb-agent agreement |
| Keywords | verb agreement, patient, agent, alignment |
| Domain | syntax, inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | 30-language sample: 11 SOV languages (Kiowa (Kiowa-Tanoan), Burmese (Burmese-Lolo), Quechua (Andean), Hindi (Indic, IE), Diyari (Karnic, Pama-Nyungan), Pengo (Dravidian), Kanuri (Saharan), Basque (isolate), Turkish (Turkic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), and Mende (Mande, Niger-Congo)); 13 SVO languages: Yoruba (Defoid, Niger-Congo), Thai (Kam-Thai), Greek (Hellenic, IE), Italian, Romanian (both Romance, IE), Guaraní (Tupi), Finnish (Uralic), Norwegian (Germanic, IE), Malay (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Swahili (Central Eastern Bantu, Niger-Congo), Fulani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), Serbocroatian (Slavic, IE), and Modern Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic); 6 V-initial languages: Welsh (Celtic, IE), Maori (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Malagasy (Barito, Western Malayo-Polynesian), Papago (Uto-Aztecan), Maya (Mayan), and Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic). |
| Source | Foster & Hofling 1987: 480 |
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See also ##45, 84, 85, 86, 188, 294, 327.
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See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=45"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=84"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=85"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=86"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=188"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=294"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=327"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.
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