Universal #28

Legacy number: 28

 Number  28
 Original  In no language is there Präfixaufnahme involving a ligative.
 Standardized  IF Aufnahme is Präfixaufnahme rather than Suffixaufnahme, THEN there is no ligative between external and internal case.
 Formula  Präfixaufnahme ⇒ ¬ligative
 Keywords  case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, Präfixaufnahme, ligative, affix-order
 Domain  inflection
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
 Source  Moravcsik 1995: 472, G11

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Discussion
Notes
LIGATIVE (or Ligature): In some languages, such as Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) and Hurrian (isolate), the attributive nominal includes, in addition to the two case markers, a third element —“a special carrier suffix” (Plank 1990) or ligative — wedged in between the two.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
LIGATIVE (or Ligature): In some languages, such as Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) and Hurrian (isolate), the attributive nominal includes, in addition to the two case markers, a third element &ndsh; "a special carrier suffix" (Plank 1990) or ligative – wedged in between the two.