Universal #38

Legacy number: 38

 Number  38
 Original  If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time it has Suffixaufnahme in only one of the two contexts, that context is headless NPs.
 Standardized  IF there is Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time there is Suffixaufnahme in only one of the two contexts, THEN that context is headless NPs.
 Keywords  case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, head, ellipsis
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Suffixaufnahme languages surveyed in Plank (ed.) 1995, especially developments in Kartvelian
 Source  Moravcsik 1995: 478, G21, with special reference to Boeder 1995

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Discussion
Notes
1. Diachronic analogue to G2, here #17.2. In other words: If Suffixaufnahme is lost, it will be lost in headed NPs before headless NPs.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Diachronic analogue to G2, here <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=17"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

2. In other words: If Suffixaufnahme is lost, it will be lost in headed NPs before headless NPs.