Universal 528:
- Original
- In every numerical system some numbers receive simple lexical representation.
- Standardized
- In every numerical system some numbers are expressed by basic terms.
- Keywords
- numeral
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
- Source
- Greenberg 1978a: 255 (#4)
- Counterexamples
simple lexical representation is the identity function which has the same value as its argument, e.g. in English, identity function ‘three’ equals argument 3.