Universal #228

Legacy number: 228

 Number  228
 Original  If nouns inflect for case, then verbs inflect for some inflectional category.
 Standardized  IF nouns inflect for case, THEN verbs inflect for some inflectional category.
 Formula  case (noun) ⇒ inflection (verb)
 Keywords  noun, case, verb
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Arabic, Chaldean, Hebrew (all Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Turkish (S. Turkic, Altaic), Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish (all Indo-European), Chinese (Sino-Tibetan), Vietnamese (Mon-Khmer)
 Source  Campanella 1638, as interpreted in Plank 1999: 8

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Cf. #387.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=387"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">