Universal #185

Legacy number: 185

 Number  185
 Original  If there are analogical changes in the inflectional paradigms of place names, non-local cases (including the nominative) are generally reformed after local cases (such as the dative), rather than the other way round.
 Standardized  When there are analogical changes in the inflectional paradigms of place names, non-local cases (including the nominative) are generally reformed after local cases (such as the dative), rather than the other way round.
 Keywords  place name, nominative case, local case, non-local case, analogical change
 Domain  inflection
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  Indo-European languages
 Source  Maøczak 1958: 396, hypothesis 9

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Discussion
Notes
1. Although the investigation is based only on Indo-European languages, the author assumes it to be valid universally.2. See also Hock, H. H. (1991). Principles of Historical Linguistics, 232-234. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Manzelli, Gianguido (1993). Lessicalizzazione di sintagmi preposizionali: Nomi di luogo. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 78: 26-52. (Place names often derive from adpositional phrases with a local adpositions.)
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Although the investigation is based only on Indo-European languages, the author assumes it to be valid universally.

2. See also Hock, H. H. (1991). Principles of Historical Linguistics, 232-234. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Manzelli, Gianguido (1993). Lessicalizzazione di sintagmi preposizionali: Nomi di luogo. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 78: 26-52. (Place names often derive from adpositional phrases with a local adpositions.)