Universal 408: (person marker (possessee) = (person marker (INTR (non-perfective))) ⇒
(person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR (perfective)))

Universal 408: (person marker (possessee) = (person marker (INTR (non-perfective))) ⇒
(person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR (perfective)))

Original

If person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of non-perfective tenses, this will also be the case in perfective tenses.

Standardized

IF person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of non-perfective tenses, THEN this will also be true in perfective tenses.

Keywords

noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity, tense, perfective, non-perfective

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

Greenlandic Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)

Source

Walter 1981: 114, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47

Counterexamples