Universal #455
Legacy number: 455
| Number | 454 |
| Original | Personal possessive prefixes always imply a GN order, but not the converse; for personal possessive suffixes there is no such rule. |
| Standardized | IF there are personal possessive prefixes, THEN genitive precedes its head noun, but not vice versa |
| Formula | personal possessive prefixes ⇒ G N |
| Keywords | possession, person, prefix, suffix, order, attributive, noun |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | almost absolute? |
| Basis | 75 languages surveyed in Ultan 1978e |
| Source | Ultan 1978e: 36 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Pipil (Uto-Aztecan) (Rijkhoff 1992: 255)
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