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Universal 1215:
- Original
- Nouns denoting body parts are the preferred sources for the grammaticalization of local adpositions.
- Standardized
- Nouns denoting body parts are the preferred sources for the grammaticalization of local adpositions.
- Keywords
- case, local case, adposition, grammaticalization
- Domain
- syntax, lexicon
- Type
- target < source
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 50 languages in Kahr 1975; languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
- Source
- Kahr 1975: 26; Stolz 1992: 105; 112
- Counterexamples
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