Universal #40

Legacy number: 40

 Number  40
 Original  If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two are prosodically unified, and at some earlier time it had only one of the two contexts, that context is NPs with prosodic separation.
 Standardized  IF there is Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two are prosodically unified, and at some earlier time it had only one of the two contexts, THEN that context is NPs with prosodic separation.
 Keywords  case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, prosodic phrasing<br>
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Boeder 1995
 Source  Boeder 1995, Moravcsik 1995: 478, G23

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Similar to G12, here #29.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Similar to G12, here <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=29"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">