Universal 17: SA head-present ⇒ SA head-missing
- Original
- If Suffixaufnahme occurs with the head present, it also occurs with the head missing.
- Standardized
- IF Suffixaufnahme occurs with the head present, THEN it also occurs with the head missing.
- Keywords
- case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, head, ellipsis
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Boeder 1995
- Source
- Boeder 1995, Moravcsik 1995: 469, G2
- Counterexamples
1. To exemplify headless attributives (sometimes called hypostasis constructions):The duke’s palace is big, but the king’s [ONE| is even bigger.2. Cf. the diachronic analogue #38.