Universal #411

Legacy number: 411

 Number  410
 Original  If person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of the non-subordinate sort, this will also be the case for intransitive verbs of the subordinate* sort.
 Standardized  IF person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of the non-subordinate sort, THEN this will also be true for intransitive verbs of the subordinate* sort.
 Formula  ((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (non-subordinate)) ⇒
((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (subordinate))
 Keywords  noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity, subordination
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Buriat (Mongolian, Altaic)
 Source  Walter 1981: 116, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47

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Discussion
Notes
* - subordination in the sense of dependence on another verb, e.g. must X.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
* - subordination in the sense of dependence on another verb, e.g. must X.