Universal 39:

Universal 39:

Original

If a language has Suffixaufnahme with both preposed and postposed attributives at one time and at some earlier time it had it in only one of the two contexts, that context is postposed attributives.

Standardized

IF there is Suffixaufnahme with both preposed and postposed attributives at one time and at some earlier time only one of the two contexts, THEN that context will be postposed attributives.

Keywords

case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, attributive, order

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

no genuine implication; rather: provided that

Status

diachronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

languages in Boeder1995

Source

Boeder 1995, Moravcsik 1995: 478, G22

Counterexamples