Universal #193

Legacy number: 193

 Number  193
 Original  If in a language verbs assign morphological case, so do adpositions; and vice versa.
 Standardized  IF verbs assign morphological case, THEN adpositions assign morphological case.
IF adpositions assign morphological case, THEN verbs assign morphological case.
 Formula  case assign (verb) ⇒ case assign (adposition);
case assign (adposition) ⇒ case assign (verb)
 Keywords  verb, case, adposition
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1993: 717

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Discussion
Notes
1. This means that there is no language where, of the two classes of verb complements and adpositional complements, only one is morphologically case-marked.2. Cf. #194.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. This means that there is no language where, of the two classes of verb complements and adpositional complements, only one is morphologically case-marked.
2. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=194"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">