Universal #338

Legacy number: 338

 Number  337
 Original  If the verb agrees with subject and object and there are confix-forms such as s-V-s-o, then there are s-V-o forms as well.
 Standardized  Whenever the verb agrees with subject and object, IF there are confix forms such as s-V-s-o, THEN there is also non-confixal subject agreement in the order s-V-o.
 Keywords  verb agreement, subject, direct object, person, affix-order, prefix, suffix, confix
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Amharic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
One counterexample! And how many examples for which the implication is true?
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
One counterexample! And how many examples for which the implication is true?