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Universal 1052:

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Universal 1052:

Original
If determiners and modifiers agree both with head nouns, head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns, and vice versa.
Standardized
IF determiners and modifiers both agree with head nouns, THEN head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns.
IF head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns, THEN both determiners and modifiers agree with head nouns.
Keywords
agreement, NP, determiner, modifier, attribution
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
mutual implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
Source
Plank 1994a: 51 ()
Counterexamples
Israeli Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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