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Universal 50:

Original
In agreement of adnominal modifiers with their heads (NP internal agreement), the agreement features may include case but not person.
Standardized
The agreement features of modifiers in NP-internal agreement may include case but not person.
Keywords
noun, modifier, case, person, agreement
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
?
Source
C. Lehmann 1988: 57, Plank 1991c: 537 (review)
Counterexamples
Nenets (Samoyedic, Uralic) has attributive agreement in person-number, with identical possessor person-number markers occurring on the dependent (quantifier, an adjective, or even a noun in modifying function) and the head. If the NP in addition carries an overt case marker, it is also distributed over head and dependent:mgarka-myi tyor-myi big-1SG cry-1SG ‘my loud cry’syidya-mta nguda-mta two-ACC.3SG hand-ACC.3SG‘his two hands (ACC)’ (I. Nikolaeva, p.c.)

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Cf. #119.

    1. May 2020

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