Universal #18

Legacy number: 18

 Number  18
 Original  In all languages, if Suffixaufnahme occurs in multi-level possessive constructions, it also occurs in single-level ones.
 Standardized  IF Suffixaufnahme occurs in multi-level (i.e. recursive) possessive constructions, THEN it also occurs in single-level ones.
 Formula  SA multi-level ⇒ SA single-level
 Keywords  case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, recursion
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
 Source  Moravcsik 1995: 470, G3

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Discussion
Notes
Derivable from a more general universal, often assumed tacitly: Whatever marking is employed in complex/marked constructions is also employed in correspondingly simpler/unmarked constructions.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Derivable from a more general universal, often assumed tacitly:
Whatever marking is employed in complex/marked constructions is also employed in correspondingly simpler/unmarked constructions.