Universal #409

Legacy number: 409

 Number  408
 Original  If person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of non-perfective tenses, this will also be the case in perfective tenses.
 Standardized  IF person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of non-perfective tenses, THEN this will also be true in perfective tenses.
 Formula  (person marker (possessee) = (person marker (INTR (non-perfective))) ⇒
(person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR (perfective)))
 Keywords  noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity, tense, perfective, non-perfective
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
 Source  Walter 1981: 114, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47

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Discussion
Notes
Doesn’t necessarily hold for all persons.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Doesn't necessarily hold for all persons.