Universal #907

Legacy number: 907

 Number  904
 Original  If noun phrases take case marking when occurring in core relations governed by verbs and other lexical expressions, they will also do so when in construction with adpositions in syntactically more peripheral relations, even if this dual grammatical relation coding on single noun phrases would seem redundant (unless several adposition cases may contrast).
 Standardized  IF noun phrases take case marking when occurring in core relations governed by verbs and other lexical expressions, THEN they will also do so when in construction with adpositions in syntactically more peripheral relations.
 Keywords  case, adposition
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Plank 1985: 231

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