Universal 38:

Universal 38:

Original

If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time it has Suffixaufnahme in only one of the two contexts, that context is headless NPs.

Standardized

IF there is Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time there is Suffixaufnahme in only one of the two contexts, THEN that context is headless NPs.

Keywords

case, attribution, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, head, ellipsis

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

no genuine implication; rather: provided that

Status

diachronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

Suffixaufnahme languages surveyed in Plank (ed.) 1995, especially developments in Kartvelian

Source

Moravcsik 1995: 478, G21, with special reference to Boeder 1995

Counterexamples