Universal #953

Legacy number: 953

 Number  950
 Original  If direct and indirect/non-direct objects are distinguished in their coding, then they also differ in their syntactic behaviour (but not necessarily the reverse).
 Standardized  IF direct and indirect/non-direct objects are distinguished in their coding, THEN they also differ in their syntactic behavior (but not necessarily the reverse).
 Keywords  grammatical relations, object, indirect, non-direct, direct
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Plank 1987
 Source  Plank 1987: 48

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## 953,955, and 956 seem to me identical. Why list them three times!?
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=953"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=955"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, and <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=956"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> seem to me identical. Why list them three times!?