Universal #1640
Legacy number: 1640
| Number | 1635 |
| Original | Languages with productive noun incorporation must be of the head-marking type. |
| Standardized | IF there is productive noun incorporation, THEN there will be head-marking. |
| Formula | productive noun-incorporation ⇒ head-marking |
| Keywords | noun incorporation, head-marking |
| Domain | morphology, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | Polysynthetic languages like Mohawk (Iroquoian), Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan), Kiowa (Kiowa- Tanoan), Gunwinjguan (Gunwingguan, Australian), Wichita (Caddoan), Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), Ainu (isolate). Non-polysynthetic languages like Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut), Lakhota (Siouan), Slave (Athabaskan), Alamblak (Sepik-Ramu), Chichewa (Bantoid, Niger-Congo), Choctaw (Muskogean) |
| Source | Baker 1996: 282 |
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