Polysynthetic languages should not have non-referential quantified NPs – that is, NPs comparable to ‘everyone’, ‘everything’, ‘nobody’, and ‘nothing’ in English.
Standardized
IF there is polysynthesis, THEN there will be no non-referential quantified NPs (quantifiers serving as NPs on their own).
Keywords
polysynthesis, quantifier
Domain
morphology, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
Polysynthetic languages like Mohawk (Iroquoian), Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan), Kiowa (Kiowa- Tanoan), Gunwinjguan (Gunwingguan, Australian), Wichita (Caddoan), Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), Ainu (isolate). Non-polysynthetic languages like Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut), Lakhota (Siouan), Slave (Athabaskan), Alamblak (Sepik-Ramu), Chichewa (Bantoid, Niger-Congo), Choctaw (Muskogean)
Baker has no data on Wichita, Chukchi, and Ainu.[But on all other polysynthetic lgs? ]