Universal #216

Legacy number: 216

 Number  216
 Original  The most important morphological implications of active languages are as follows: the opposition of the active and inactive series of personal affixes in the verb conjugation and the opposition of the active and inactive cases in the noun declension, similar to each other in their function.
 Standardized  IF alignment is active, THEN there will be an opposition of an active and inactive series of personal affixes in verb inflection and an opposition of an active and an inactive case in noun inflection, similar to each other in their function.
 Formula  active alignment ⇒ case (Act/Inact) & personal affix (Act /Inact)
 Keywords  alignment, active, verb, person, case, active, inactive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages of North and South America, some ancient languages of the New East (esp. Elamite (Elamo-Dravidian))
 Source  Klimov 1977: 308, Klimov 1983

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