Universal 105:

Universal 105:

Original

Adjectives tend to lose class agreement before number agreement.

Standardized

IF adjectives are losing number agreement, THEN they do not, or no longer, have class agreement.

Keywords

adjective, agreement, noun class, number

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

implication

Status

diachronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages in Marchese 1988

Source

Marchese 1988: 335, Plank 1991c: 541 (review)

Counterexamples