Universal #164

Legacy number: 164

 Number  164
 Original  No language signals completive or incompletive aspect by the form of its dative, allative, or locative marking.
 Standardized  Overt marking of dative or spatial functions (allative, locative) does not alternate depending on aspect (completive/incompletive).
 Keywords  indirect object, allative, locative, aspect, completive, incompletive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
 Source  Blansitt 1988: 181

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Discussion
Notes
Presumably the idea is that aspect (completive/incompletive) may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Presumably the idea is that aspect (completive/incompletive) may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.