Universal #50

Legacy number: 50

 Number  50
 Original  In agreement of adnominal modifiers with their heads (NP internal agreement), the agreement features may include case but not person.
 Standardized  The agreement features of modifiers in NP-internal agreement may include case but not person.
 Keywords  noun, modifier, case, person, agreement
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  ?
 Source  C. Lehmann 1988: 57, Plank 1991c: 537 (review)

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Nenets (Samoyedic, Uralic) has attributive agreement in person-number, with identical possessor person-number markers occurring on the dependent (quantifier, an adjective, or even a noun in modifying function) and the head. If the NP in addition carries an overt case marker, it is also distributed over head and dependent:mgarka-myi tyor-myi big-1SG cry-1SG ‘my loud cry’syidya-mta nguda-mta two-ACC.3SG hand-ACC.3SG‘his two hands (ACC)’ (I. Nikolaeva, p.c.)
Notes
Cf. #119.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=119"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">