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Universal 1727:

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Universal 1727:

Original
In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are identical.
Standardized
In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are identical.
Keywords
demonstrative
Domain
syntax
Type
mutual implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
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
Greenberg 1978b: 75, Moravcsik 1994b
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    In other, implicational words:IF demonstratives occur adnominally, THEN they also occur independently, forming an NP of their own, and vice versa.

    1. May 2020

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