Universal 237: category X (adjective) ⇒ category X (noun)

Original: If adjectives inflect for any category, nouns inflect for this category as well.
Standardized: IF adjectives inflect for any category, THEN nouns inflect for this category as well.
Keywords: adjective, noun, inflection
Domain: inflection
Type: implication
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: Ancient and Modern Greek (both Greek), French, Italian, Latin (all Italic), English, “Gothic” (both Germanic), Classical Armenian (Armenian), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
Source: Smith 1761 [1983], as interpreted in Plank 1992: 44

Counterexamples: Germanic, where adjectives inflect for “weak/strong” (definite/indefinite), which nouns don’t (except perhaps in Scandinavian, if definiteness marking on nouns is inflectional)Also, nouns don’t really INFLECT for gender.

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