Universal 543:
- Original
- If a link for subtraction is final, the language is postpositional.
- Standardized
- IF a link for subtraction is final, THEN there are postpositions.
- Keywords
- numeral, postposition
- Domain
- word formation, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
- Source
- Greenberg 1978a: 277 (#34)
- Counterexamples
See the analogous generalization for additions in #543, but unlike addition subtraction may have initial links (cf. #541), e.g. Biblical Welsh.