Universal #443

Legacy number: 443

 Number  442
 Original  Hierarchy of proneness to lose sentential head-marking:
A > S > P,
where sentential head-marking is impossible for A, and possible for P.
 Standardized  Hierarchy of proneness to lose sentential head-marking:
A > S > P,
where sentential head-marking is impossible for A, and possible for P.
 Keywords  nominalization, head-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996
 Source  Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996: 44

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Cf. #108.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=108"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">