Universal 195:
- Original
- If in a language adjectives assign morphological case to their complements, the range of cases assigned by them will include the genitive.
- Standardized
- IF adjectives can assign morphological cases other than genitive to their complements, they will also assign genitive.
- Keywords
- adjective, case, genitive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Moravcsik 1993: 717
- Counterexamples
In other words: The cases governed by the adjective will not all be of the adverbal type but will include the adnominal case.