Universal #415

Legacy number: 415

 Number  414
 Original  With the exception of some North-Western Caucasian languages, no European language has person-number cross-reference prefixed to possessed nouns.
 Standardized  Person-number cross-reference markers on possessed nouns are not prefixed.
 Keywords  person, number, cross-reference, prefix, possessee
 Domain  inflection
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  a Euroversal rather than a universal
 Basis  European languages
 Source  Manzelli 1990: 66, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 50

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Counterexamples
some North-Western Caucasian languages