Universal #320

Legacy number: 320

 Number  319
 Original  If in a language there is a syntactic form of the absolutive, it also has a syntactic form of the ergative.
 Standardized  IF there is the syntactic form of an absolutive, THEN there will also be the syntactic form of an ergative.
 Keywords  case, absolutive, ergative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Waffa (Trans-New Guinea, Papuan), Yukaghir (isolate) (Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
1. See comments to #310.2. Cf.#284.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. See comments to <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=310"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">
2. Cf.<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=284"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">