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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
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.