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Universal 40:

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Universal 40:

Original
If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two are prosodically unified, and at some earlier time it had only one of the two contexts, that context is NPs with prosodic separation.
Standardized
IF there is Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two are prosodically unified, and at some earlier time it had only one of the two contexts, THEN that context is NPs with prosodic separation.
Keywords
case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, prosodic phrasing
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
diachronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages in Boeder 1995
Source
Boeder 1995, Moravcsik 1995: 478, G23
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Similar to G12, here #29.

    1. May 2020

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