Universal #972

Legacy number: 972

 Number  968
 Original  The decision whether the governor (head) or the governee (dependent) is morphologically marked tends to be made uniformly for all pairs of governors and governees.
 Standardized  IF one type of head-dependent construction will be either head-marked or dependent-marked, THEN other types of head-dependent constructions will equally be either head-marked or dependent-marked.
 Keywords  head-marking, dependent-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  60 languages sample of Nichols 1986
 Source  Nichols 1986

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Discussion
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The decision whether the governor precedes or follows the governee tends to be made uniformly for all pairs of governors and governees: Mesgnien Meniski (1680), Beauzée (1767): #233, 238, 239.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
The decision whether the governor precedes or follows the governee tends to be made uniformly for all pairs of governors and governees: Mesgnien Meniski 1680, Beauzée 1767:<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=233"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=238"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=239"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.