Universal #653
Legacy number: 653
| Number | 650 |
| Original | IF a language has agent-patient case marking in 3rd person, it will also have agent-patient marking in 1st and 2nd persons. |
| Standardized | IF there is stative-active case marking in 3rd person, THEN there is also stative-active marking in 1st and 2nd persons. |
| Formula | stative-active (3) ⇒ stative-active (1&2) |
| Keywords | case, stative, active, person, 1, 2, 3 |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Choctaw (Muskogean), Pomo (Hokan), Lakhota (Siouan), Wichita (Caddoan), Iroquoian languages, Paraguayan Guarani, Tupinaba (both Kariri-Tupi); Lotha (Burmic, Sino-Tibetan), Batsbi (E. Caucasian) |
| Source | Dahlstrom 1983: 45 |
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