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Universal 1730:
- Original
- The phonological body of any noun phrase constituent is never more substantial in adnominal use than in pronominal use.
- Standardized
- The phonological body of any noun phrase constituent is never more substantial in adnominal use than in pronominal use.
- Keywords
- NP, pronoun
- Domain
- inflection, 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
Cf. #1734.