Universal 409: ((person marker (possessee) = person marker (verb(non-indicative))) ⇒
((person marker (possessee) = person marker (verb (indicative)))

Universal 409: ((person marker (possessee) = person marker (verb(non-indicative))) ⇒
((person marker (possessee) = person marker (verb (indicative)))

Original

If person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and verbs of non-indicative moods (imperative, interrogative, optative), this will also be the case in the indicative mood.

Standardized

IF person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and verbs of non-indicative moods (imperative, interrogative, optative), THEN this will also be true in the indicative mood.

Keywords

noun, person, possession, verb, mood, indicative, non-indicative, imperative, interrogative, optative

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