Universal #203
Legacy number: 203
| Number | 203 |
| Original | No set of case marking elements both participate in agreement and fail to express subject-object relations. |
| Standardized | IF a relational marker (case, adposition) participates in agreement, THEN it will not fail to express subject-object relations. IF a relational marker (case, adposition) fails to express subject-object relations, THEN it will not participates in agreement. |
| Keywords | case, adposition, agreement, grammatical relations |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | mutual implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Russian (Slavic, Indo-European), Evenki (Tungus), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Amharic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian (all Finnic, Uralic) |
| Source | Kilby 1981: 116 (G) |
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