Universal 141: Adj(shape) ⇒ Adj(color) & Adj(size)
- Original
- If a language has adjectives for shape, it has adjectives for colour and size.
- Standardized
- IF the property concept of shape is expressed through adjectives, THEN those of colour and size are also expressed through adjectives.
- Keywords
- word class, adjective, property concept
- Domain
- syntax, semantics
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages in Dixon 1977
- Source
- Dixon 1977
- Counterexamples
See #1200.