Universal #318

Legacy number: 318

 Number  317
 Original  If inanimate nominals have the opposition of the syntactic form of the nominative and the syntactic form of the accusative, then animate nominals also have this opposition.
 Standardized  IF inanimate nominals have the opposition of the syntactic form of the nominative and the accusative, THEN animate nominals also have this opposition.
 Formula  nominative/accusative (inanimate noun) ⇒ nominative/accusative (animate noun)
 Keywords  animacy, case, nominative, accusative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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