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Universal 596:
- Original
- The possessive adjective is not separated from the head noun by any constituent except another genuine determiner, i. e. the determiner.
- Standardized
- IF a possessive adjective is separated from the head noun by any constituent, THEN this intervening element will be the determiner.
- Keywords
- possessive adjective, noun, determiner, order
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- some East African languages
- Source
- Heine 1980: 185
- Counterexamples
