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Universal 164:
- Original
- No language signals completive or incompletive aspect by the form of its dative, allative, or locative marking.
- Standardized
- Overt marking of dative or spatial functions (allative, locative) does not alternate depending on aspect (completive/incompletive).
- Keywords
- indirect object, allative, locative, aspect, completive, incompletive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
- Source
- Blansitt 1988: 181
- Counterexamples
Presumably the idea is that aspect (completive/incompletive) may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.