Universal 158:
- Original
- If an adposition occurs as both dative marker and locative marker, it also occurs as allative marker.
- Standardized
- IF an adposition occurs as both a dative marker and a locative marker, THEN it also occurs as an allative marker.
- Keywords
- adposition, dative, locative, allative
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
- Source
- Blansitt 1988 186 (v)
- Counterexamples
Presumably, this reflects a sequence of grammaticalizations: A locative is first grammaticalized as allative, then as dative.