Universal #49

Legacy number: 49

 Number  49
 Original  Case and number agreement of attributive adjectives are determined independently: number agreement is controlled by head nouns; case is distributed among the relevant noun phrase (NP) constituents subject to structural conditions, especially that of c-command.
 Standardized  Case and number agreement of attributive adjectives are determined independently: number agreement is controlled by head nouns; case is distributed among the relevant noun phrase (NP) constituents subject to structural conditions, especially that of c-command.
 Keywords  NP, noun, case, number, attributive adjective, agreement, c-command
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  ?
 Source  Babby 1988: 300, Plank 1991c: 534 (review)

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