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Universal 169:

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Universal 169:

Original
If an adposition and a case affix are involved in a government relation, it is always the adposition that governs the affix rather than in reverse.
Standardized
When an adposition and a case affix are involved in a government relation, it is always the adposition that governs the affix rather than in reverse.
Keywords
adposition, case, affix, government
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
Source
Moravcsik 1994a: 45
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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