Universal 1058:
- Original
- If verbs agree in Gender, they are likelier to agree than not to agree in Person.
- Standardized
- IF verbs agree in Gender, THEN they are likelier to agree than not to agree in Person.
- Keywords
- agreement, verb, person, gender
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
- Source
- Plank 1994a: 53 (
)
- Counterexamples
- Burushaski (isolate) (controller DObj) (Plank 1994a).
Cf. #1061 for reverse.