A relation that is higher on the hierarchy of centrality (subject-object > local relations; locative > ablative; …) than another one will not be expressed lower down on the grammatical-to-lexical hierarchy of expression (word order > verbal coding > case > adpositions > …).
Standardized
A relation that is higher on the hierarchy of centrality (subject-object > local relations; locative > ablative; …) than another one will not be expressed lower down on the grammatical-to-lexical hierarchy of expression (word order > verbal coding > case > adpositions > …).
Keywords
grammatical relations, local relations, word order, case, adposition
The principle suggested in #191 fits into this larger generalization relating types of expression and types of case relation.