Universal #1727
Legacy number: 1727
| Number | 1722 |
| Original | If the article co-occurs with the noun that is accompanied by adnominal possessives that are not marked for genitive, it also does so with those that have genitive marking. |
| Standardized | IF the article co-occurs with the noun that is accompanied by adnominal possessives that are not marked for genitive, THEN the article co-occurs with adnominal possessives that are marked for genitive. |
| Keywords | article, possessor, attributive, genitive case |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1994b, including Hungarian, Mari (both Finno-Ugric), Albanian (Albanian, IE), Classical and Modern Greek (Greek, IE), English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Frisian, Old Icelandic (all Germanic, IE), Welsh, Breton, Manx (all Celtic, IE), Spanish, Rumanian, Romantsch, Latin, Sardinian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Occitan (all Romance, IE), Macedonian (Slavic, IE), Abkhaz (NW Caucasian), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Maltese (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Basque (isolate), Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Samoan (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Berbice Dutch Creole, Toba (Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chantyal (?) |
| Source | Moravcsik 1994b |
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