Universal #90
Legacy number: 90
| Number | 90 |
| Original | The object agreement marker in all languages where it exists bears a significant relationship to some pronouns of that language which is both formal and semantic, in that the object agreement marker is always significantly similar in phonological form to a personal pronoun and can always be used to signify by itself the meaning of some personal pronominal object complement of the verb. |
| Standardized | An object agreement marker cannot be formally and semantically entirely distinct from a personal pronoun (in its object form). |
| Keywords | object, agreement, personal pronoun, verb |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic but presumably diachronically motivated |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages in Moravcsik 1974 |
| Source | Moravcsik 1974: 30 |
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