Universal #408
Legacy number: 408
| Number | 407 |
| Original | If person marking in possessed nouns and intransitive verbs is phonologically identical, this will also be the case for possessed nouns and transitive verbs. |
| Standardized | IF person marking in possessed nouns and intransitive verbs is phonologically identical, THEN this will also be true for possessed nouns and transitive verbs. |
| Formula | (person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) ⇒ (person marker (possessee) = person marker (TR)) |
| Keywords | noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic) |
| Source | Walter 1981: 113, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47 |
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