Universal #19

Legacy number: 19

 Number  19
 Original  In all languages, if Suffixaufnahme occurs with nominal possessors, it also occurs with pronominal ones.
 Standardized  IF Suffixaufnahme occurs with nominal possessors, THEN it also occurs with pronominal ones.
 Formula  SA nominal possessor ⇒ SA pronominal possessor
 Keywords  case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, noun, pronoun
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of Australian languages in Schweiger 1995
 Source  Schweiger 1995, Moravcsik 1995: 470, G4

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