Universal #195

Legacy number: 195

 Number  195
 Original  If in a language adjectives assign morphological case to their complements, the range of cases assigned by them will include the genitive.
 Standardized  IF adjectives can assign morphological cases other than genitive to their complements, they will also assign genitive.
 Keywords  adjective, case, genitive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1993: 717

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In other words: The cases governed by the adjective will not all be of the adverbal type but will include the adnominal case.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
In other words: The cases governed by the adjective will not all be of the adverbal type but will include the adnominal case.