Universal 1349: plural weakly developed ⇒ numeral classifiers
- Original
- Numeral classifiers occur in the languages where plural is weakly developed.
- Standardized
- IF plural is weakly developed, THEN there are numeral classifiers.
- Keywords
- number, plural, numeral classifier
- Domain
- syntax, inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Serebrennikov 1974: 294
- Counterexamples
Cf. the claim by Sanches (#535): “If a language includes numeral classifiers as its dominant mode of forming quantification expressions, then it will also have facultative expression of the plural.”Which has the implication the other way round.