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Universal 320: nominative/accusative (pronouns) ⇒ nominative/accusative (nouns)

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Universal 320: nominative/accusative (pronouns) ⇒ nominative/accusative (nouns)

Original
If personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, then this opposition is relevant for nouns as well.
Standardized
IF personal pronouns have an opposition of the syntactic forms of nominative and accusative, THEN nouns have this opposition as well.
Keywords
pronoun, personal pronoun, noun, case, nominative, accusative
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
Source
Kozinsky 1981
Counterexamples
split case systems.English

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    See comments to #310.Most people would think it’s the other way round, and they wouldn’t be as wrong as Kozinsky was, read naively.

    1. May 2020

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