Universal #394

Legacy number: 394

 Number  393
 Original  If a language shows person-number marking on adpositions, it also shows the same on nouns; if it shows person-number marking on nouns, it also shows the same on verbs.
 Standardized  IF there is person-number marking on adpositions, THEN there will be the same on nouns as well;
IF there is person-number marking on nouns, THEN there will be the same on verbs as well.
 Formula  person-number (adposition) ⇒ person-number (noun) ⇒ person-number (verb)
 Keywords  adposition, noun, verb, person, number
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  De Groot 1989: 69, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 40

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Discussion
Notes
This topic is also discussed in an unpublished manuscript of Katalin Radics’ (1980) “The typology and history of person agreement ” (in Hungarian) and in Lehmann 1985: 97.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
This topic is also discussed in an unpublished manuscript of Katalin Radics' (1980) "The typology and history of person agreement " (in Hungarian) and in Lehmann 1985: 97.