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Universal 1720:

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Universal 1720:

Original
If the article co-occurs with the noun that is accompanied by a pronominal possessor, it also co-occurs with the noun if the possessor is nominal.
Standardized
IF the article co-occurs with the noun that is accompanied by a pronominal possessor, THEN the article co-occurs with the noun if the possessor is nominal.
Keywords
article, possessor
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute?
Basis
languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1994b, including Hungarian, Mari (both Finno-Ugric), Albanian (Albanian, IE), Classical and Modern Greek (Greek, IE), English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Frisian, Old Icelandic (all Germanic, IE), Welsh, Breton, Manx (all Celtic, IE), Spanish, Rumanian, Romantsch, Latin, Sardinian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Occitan (all Romance, IE), Macedonian (Slavic, IE), Abkhaz (NW Caucasian), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Maltese (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Basque (isolate), Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Samoan (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Berbice Dutch Creole, Toba (Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chantyal (?)
Source
Moravcsik 1994b
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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