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Universal 32: SA ⇒ internal case without external case
- Original
- If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it also has the internal case occurring without the external case.
- Standardized
- IF there is Suffixaufnahme, THEN there will also be the internal case occurring without the external case.
- Keywords
- case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Suffixaufnahme-languages surveyed in Plank (ed.) 1995
- Source
- Moravcsik 1995: 473, G14
- Counterexamples
The internal case (typically genitive) is a case in its own right, occurring in circumstances other than Suffixaufnahme constructions.