Universal #323

Legacy number: 323

 Number  322
 Original  If nouns have a syntactic form of the ergative, then at least some of its allomorphs are non-zero.
 Standardized  IF nouns have a syntactic form of the ergative, THEN at least some of its allomorphs are non-zero.
 Formula  ergative (nouns) ⇒ non-zero allomorphs
 Keywords  noun, case, ergative, allomorphy, zero
 Domain  inflection
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 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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