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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