Universal 317: nominative/accusative (inanimate noun) ⇒ nominative/accusative (animate noun)

Universal 317: nominative/accusative (inanimate noun) ⇒ nominative/accusative (animate noun)

Original

If inanimate nominals have the opposition of the syntactic form of the nominative and the syntactic form of the accusative, then animate nominals also have this opposition.

Standardized

IF inanimate nominals have the opposition of the syntactic form of the nominative and the accusative, THEN animate nominals also have this opposition.

Keywords

animacy, case, nominative, accusative

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981

Source

Kozinsky 1981

Counterexamples