Skip to content

Universal 131:

Posted in Universals Archive

Universal 131:

Original
If an ANC retains its sentential head-marking for some argument, it also retains its sentential dependent-marking for the same argument.
Standardized
IF an argument retains its sentential head-marking in an action nominalization, THEN the same argument will also retain its sentential dependent-marking.
Keywords
nominalization, head-marking, dependent-marking
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of languages in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993
Source
Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 65 (); Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1996: 45
Counterexamples
One type of intransitive ANC in Tabasaran (Lezgic, East Caucasian) (see Bogatyrev & Boguslavskaya 1982: 85), also mentioned in Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996: 32, 46.

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    In Tabasaran the S may chose between the absolutive and the genitive case, i.e. between retaining dependent-marking or genitivizing, and ANCs retain verbal class agreement with S in the genitive case.

    1. May 2020

Comments are closed.