Universal #910

Legacy number: 910

 Number  907
 Original  Adpositions may encode the valency-bound syntactic core relations of subject and object and perhaps attribute only if languages dispense with morphological case marking altogether.
 Standardized  IF adpositions encode the syntactic core relations of subject, object, and perhaps attribute, THEN no grammatical relations are encoded by morphological case.
 Keywords  case, adposition
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Plank 1985: 231

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