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Universal 1415:
- Original
- If heads of possessive constructions agree with their possessors in a given language then verbs agree with subjects in that language.
- Standardized
- IF heads of possessive constructions (=possessees) agree with their possessors, THEN verbs agree with subjects.
- Keywords
- agreement, verb, subject, attribution, possession
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Arosi, Fijian (both Remote Oceanic, Austronesian), Dharawal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian), Quechua (Andean), Zürich German (Germanic, Indo-European), Yurok (Algic), Welsh (Celtic, Indo-European)
- Source
- Keenan 1974: 303
- Counterexamples
