Universal 313:

Universal 313:

Original

In an overwhelming majority of languages all or almost all markers of the syntactic form of the indefinitive* are zero markers.

Standardized

Indefinitiveness* tends to be expressed by zero.

Keywords

indefinitive, zero

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

unconditional

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981

Source

Kozinsky 1981

Counterexamples

Nama (Khoisan), Tunica (isolate remotely related to Algonquian) (Kozinsky 1981)