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Universal 18: SA multi-level ⇒ SA single-level

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Universal 18: SA multi-level ⇒ SA single-level

Original
In all languages, if Suffixaufnahme occurs in multi-level possessive constructions, it also occurs in single-level ones.
Standardized
IF Suffixaufnahme occurs in multi-level (i.e. recursive) possessive constructions, THEN it also occurs in single-level ones.
Keywords
case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, recursion
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
Source
Moravcsik 1995: 470, G3
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Derivable from a more general universal, often assumed tacitly: Whatever marking is employed in complex/marked constructions is also employed in correspondingly simpler/unmarked constructions.

    1. May 2020

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