Universal #37
Legacy number: 37
| Number | 37 |
| Original | If Suffixaufnahme is historically preceded by a different construction, one possibility for that construction is to involve a pronoun-like constituent. This constituent may be an indefinite pronoun “one” which is coreferential with the head and which serves as the immediate head for the attributive nominal; or it may be the definite article of the head. |
| Standardized | IF Suffixaufnahme is historically preceded by a different construction, THEN one possibility for that construction is to involve a pronoun-like constituent. This constituent may be an indefinite pronoun 'one' which is coreferential with the head and which serves as the immediate head for the attributive nominal; or it may be the definite article of the head. |
| Keywords | case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, indefinite pronoun, definite article |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages in Aristar 1995 and Hetzron 1995 |
| Source | Aristar 1995, Hetzron 1995, Plank 1995: sec. 5, Moravcsik 1995: 477, G20 |
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