{"id":9,"date":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/universals-archive\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 9: Proper Common ⇒ N G, Common Proper ⇒ G N"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal 9: Proper Common ⇒ N G, Common Proper ⇒ G N<\/h3>\n
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Original<\/dt>\n
If in apposition the proper noun usually precedes the common noun, then the language is one in which the governing noun precedes its dependent genitive.
With much better than chance frequency, if the common noun usually precedes the proper noun, the dependent genitive precedes its governing noun.<\/dd>\n
Standardized<\/dt>\n
IF in apposition the proper noun usually precedes the common noun, THEN the head noun precedes the attributive noun.
IF in apposition the common noun usually precedes the proper noun, THEN, with much better than chance frequency, the attributive noun precedes the head noun.<\/dd>\n
Keywords<\/dt>\n
order, apposition, proper name, attributive, genitive<\/dd>\n
Domain<\/dt>\n
syntax<\/dd>\n
Type<\/dt>\n
implication<\/dd>\n
Status<\/dt>\n
achronic but presumably diachronically motivated<\/dd>\n
Quality<\/dt>\n
statistical<\/dd>\n
Basis<\/dt>\n
17 lgs of the 30 languages of Greenberg 1963<\/a> sample<\/dd>\n
Source<\/dt>\n
Greenberg 1963<\/a>: 89-90, #23<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Counterexamples<\/dt>\n
Slavic languages are mentioned in the Russian translation of Greenberg 1963 as counterexamples to part 2.In Old English (Germanic, IE), proper nouns precede their appositive common nouns in close-knit apposition (e.g., \u00c6lfred cyning \u2018Alfred king\u2019; when the common noun is accompanied by a determiner and\/or modifier, however, the order can be reversed: \u2018the good king Alfred\u2019 or \u2018Alfred the good king\u2019); genitives can precede or follow their heads (or also be split up: \u2018with God\u2019s help the almighty\u2019s\u2019), but a good case can be made for pre-head position of genitives being more common\/basic.The eventual reversal of the order in apposition has been claimed to have been inspired by a single, culturally salient Latin model borrowed into Old English: Dominus Christ \u2018Lord Christ\u2019. Conceivably, left to its own devices, English might thus have continued to infringe on this universal. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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