2024/06/07 by Plank, Frans
paper · doi:10.25364/04.49:2023.94.8
The term “Suffixaufnahme” and an early typological embedding of this kind of agreement in case between a case-marked noun and a dependent noun, itself case-marked for dependency, is due to Franz Nikolaus Finck (1910). Finck’s contention that Suffixaufnahme is something unusual was belittled, if only in the privacy of his study, by Hugo Schuchardt, at permanent loggerheads with Finck over typological issues. A re-examination of the status of Suffixaufnahme as a rarum, 27 years after a collective volume on this topic, Double Case (1995), bears out Finck as well as that collective project. However, the significance of questions posed by unequal crosslinguistic distributions is only beginning to be recognised now.