Universal 28: Präfixaufnahme ⇒ ¬ligative

Original: In no language is there Präfixaufnahme involving a ligative.
Standardized: IF Aufnahme is Präfixaufnahme rather than Suffixaufnahme, THEN there is no ligative between external and internal case.
Keywords: case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, Präfixaufnahme, ligative, affix-order
Domain: inflection
Type: no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.)1995
Source: Moravcsik 1995: 472, G11

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LIGATIVE (or Ligature): In some languages, such as Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) and Hurrian (isolate), the attributive nominal includes, in addition to the two case markers, a third element —“a special carrier suffix” (Plank 1990) or ligative — wedged in between the two.

1. May 2020

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