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Universal 414:
- Original
- With the exception of some North-Western Caucasian languages, no European language has person-number cross-reference prefixed to possessed nouns.
- Standardized
- Person-number cross-reference markers on possessed nouns are not prefixed.
- Keywords
- person, number, cross-reference, prefix, possessee
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- a Euroversal rather than a universal
- Basis
- European languages
- Source
- Manzelli 1990: 66, cited in Moravcsik 1994a: 50
- Counterexamples
- some North-Western Caucasian languages
