Universal 10: Common Proper ⇒ G N
- Original
- With much better than chance frequency, if in apposition the common noun usually precedes the proper noun, the dependent genitive precedes its governing noun.
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- Standardized
- IF in apposition the common noun usually precedes the proper noun, THEN, with much better than chance frequency, the attributive noun precedes its head noun.
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- Keywords
- order, apposition, attributive, genitive
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical, almost absolute
- Basis
- 30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
- Source
- Greenberg 1963: 89, #23
- Counterexamples
