Universal 1746:
- Original
- Ordinal numerals are likelier to be borrowed than corresponding cardinal numerals.
- Standardized
- IF a cardinal numeral is a borrowing, THEN the corresponding ordinal numeral will also be a borrowing.
- Keywords
- numeral, cardinal, ordinal, borrowing
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 100 languages, listed in the appendix
- Source
- Stolz 1999
- Counterexamples
