Universal #321

Legacy number: 321

 Number  320
 Original  If personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, then this opposition is relevant for nouns as well.
 Standardized  IF personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, THEN nouns have this opposition as well.
 Formula  nominative/accusative (pronouns) ⇒ nominative/accusative (nouns)
 Keywords  pronoun, personal pronoun, noun, case, nominative, accusative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
split case systems.English
Notes
See comments to #310.Most people would think it's the other way round, and they wouldn't be as wrong as Kozinsky was, read naively.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See comments to <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=310"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

Most people would think it's the other way round, and they wouldn't be as wrong as Kozinsky was, read naively.