Universal #956

Legacy number: 956

 Number  953
 Original  If direct and indirect/non-direct objects differ in their morphological coding (at least minimally), then they will also differ in their syntactic behaviour (at least minimally), (but not necessarily the reverse).
 Standardized  IF direct and indirect/non-direct objects differ in their morphological coding (at least minimally), THEN they will also differ in their syntactic behavior (at least minimally), but not necessarily vice versa.
 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: 50

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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!?