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Universal 1059:
- Original
- If NP-internal constituents agree in only a single category, this will not be Definiteness; it will most likely be Number.
- Standardized
- Whenever NP-internal constituents agree in only a single category, this will not be Definiteness; it will most likely be Number.
- Keywords
- agreement, NP, number, definiteness
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
- Source
- Plank 1994a: 55 (
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- Counterexamples
But presumably there is an implicational idea behind this:IF agreement in definiteness, THEN in category X;IF agreement in X, then in number.