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Universal 42:
- Original
- If a language has Suffixaufnahme at one time and at some later point it does not, one possible successor construction is the possessive adjective.
- Standardized
- IF there is Suffixaufnahme at one time and at some later point there is not, THEN one possible successor construction is the possessive adjective.
- Keywords
- case, agreement, Suffixaufnahme, adjective, possessive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Aristar 1991, Villar 1995
- Source
- Aristar 1991: 15, 26f, Villar 1995, Plank 1995: sec. 5, Moravcsik 1995: 479, G25
- Counterexamples
