Universal 162:
- Original
- No language uses different dative or spatial markers for partitives.
- Standardized
- Overt marking of dative or spatial functions does not alternate depending on whether the referent is partitive or non-partitive.
- Keywords
- indirect object, spatial complement, dative, partitive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
- Source
- inferred from Blansitt 1988: 181
- Counterexamples
Presumably the idea is that partitiveness may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.