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Universal 191:

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Universal 191:

Original
The most common syncretisms of case relations in a single form include: ablative=prolative; locative=allative; ablative=partitive.
Standardized
IF there are syncretisms involving local cases other than those mentioned in the implicatum, THEN there will be syncretisms of ablative and prolative, locative and allative, and/or ablative and partitive.
Keywords
case, local case, ablative, prolative, locative, allative, ablative, partitive, syncretism
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
languages mentioned in Kilby 1983
Source
Kilby 1983: 56
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    See also ## 190, 1228.

    1. May 2020

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