Universal 1735:

Original: If an article is the sole carrier of gender and/or number and/or case, it will co-occur with definite and generic nouns.
Standardized: IF an article is the sole carrier of gender and/or number and/or case, THEN it will co-occur with definite and generic nouns.
Keywords: article, case, number, gender, noun, definiteness, generic
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

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