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Universal 222:
- Original
- If a language has a distributive-key quantifier word, then that word is a distributive-key universal quantifier.
- Standardized
- IF there is a distributive-key quantifier word, THEN that word is a distributive-key universal quantifier.
- Keywords
- quantifier, distributive
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- Batak, Bontoc, Indonesian, Tagalog (all W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), GĂŁ (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Maricopa (Hokan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Latin, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish, Russian, English (all Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
- Source
- Gil 1992: 315, U1, Gil 1995: 326, U1
- Counterexamples
- Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic) (Gil 1992: 316). But Gil (1995: 353) considers Hungarian no counterexample to his universal.
Cf. Gil’s (1995: 326, U1) alternative formulation, which is implicational:If a quantifier is distributive-key, it is also universal.