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Universal 1105:
- Original
- The absolute or nominative form of a noun will be used in citation.
- Standardized
- The absolute or nominative form of a noun will be used in citation.
- Keywords
- nominative case, absolutive case, semantics
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Dixon 1995
- Source
- Dixon 1995: 57
- Counterexamples
- In systems with “marked nominative”, it is the unmarked ‘accusative’ case that is used in citation forms; see #6.
Cf. #310.