Universal #36

Legacy number: 36

 Number  36
 Original  If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it will also have at least one of the following NP-internal case marking patterns: complete marking, free marking (only if Suffixaufnahme is optional), final marking (only if the attributive nominal is head).
 Standardized  IF there is Suffixaufnahme, THEN there is also at least one of the following NP-internal case marking patterns: complete marking, free marking (only if Suffixaufnahme is optional), final marking (only if the attributive nominal is the head).
 Keywords  case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
 Source  Moravcsik 1995: 474, G19

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Notes
Complete marking (=word marking): All words in the phrase are marked for case. Final marking: The last word of the NP is marked for case.Free marking: Any word of the NP may be marked for case.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Complete marking (=word marking): All words in the phrase are marked for case.
Final marking: The last word of the NP is marked for case.
Free marking: Any word of the NP may be marked for case.