Universal #167
Legacy number: 167
| Number | 167 |
| Original | If a language has a distinct case marker to express “direction to”, it also has one to express “location”; and if it has a distinct case marker to express “direction from”, it also has one to express “direction to”. |
| Standardized | IF there is a distinct case marker to express “direction from”, THEN there will be a distinct case marker to express “direction to”. IF there is a distinct case marker to express “direction to”, THEN there will be a distinct case marker to express “location”. |
| Formula | “direction from” ⇒ “direction to” ⇒ “location” OR FROM ⇒ TO ⇒ AT |
| Keywords | case, semantics |
| Domain | inflection, semantics |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), English, German (both W. Germanic, Indo-European) |
| Source | Moravcsik 1994a: 39 |
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