Universal #25

Legacy number: 25

 Number  25
 Original  In all languages, if an adnominal nominal preceding the head shows Suffixaufnahme, so does an adnominal nominal of the same type following it, if that order is possible.
 Standardized  IF an adnominal nominal preceding the head shows Suffixaufnahme, THEN so does an adnominal nominal of the same type following it, if that order is possible.
 Keywords  case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, order
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
 Source  Moravcsik 1995: 471, G9

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Discussion
Notes
1. Compare with Greenberg’s universal 40 (here #63): “When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses all the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack overt expression of one or all of these categories.”2. See also #26.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Compare with Greenberg's universal 40 (here <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=63"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">): "When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses all the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack overt expression of one or all of these categories."

2. See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=26"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">