Universal 410: ((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (non-subordinate)) ⇒
((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (subordinate))

Universal 410: ((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (non-subordinate)) ⇒
((person marker (possessee) = person marker (INTR)) (subordinate))

Original

If person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of the non-subordinate sort, this will also be the case for intransitive verbs of the subordinate* sort.

Standardized

IF person marking is phonologically identical for possessed nouns and intransitive verbs of the non-subordinate sort, THEN this will also be true for intransitive verbs of the subordinate* sort.

Keywords

noun, person, possession, verb, transitivity, subordination

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

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

Source

Walter 1981: 116, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 47

Counterexamples