Universal #173

Legacy number: 173

 Number  173
 Original  If a language is prepositional, then if the demonstrative follows the noun, the genitive follows the noun.
 Standardized  IF there are prepositions, THEN IF the demonstrative follows the noun, THEN the genitive follows the noun.
 Formula  Prep ⇒ (N Dem ⇒ N G)
 Keywords  preposition, order, noun, demonstrative, attributive
 Domain  syntax
 Type  nested implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 350 languages in Hawkins 1983
 Source  Hawkins 1983: 72

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Prep & N Dem & GN: Kaliai-Kove, Karen (Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan) (Hawkins 1983).
Notes
1. Derived by transitivity from ##69 and 72.2. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Derived by transitivity from <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=69"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> and <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=72"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

2. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).