Universal #1054

Legacy number: 1054

 Number  1050
 Original  If there is agreement within NPs, there is, almost certainly, also agreement within clauses.
 Standardized  IF there is agreement within NPs, THEN there is almost certainly agreement within clauses.
 Keywords  NP, clause, agreement
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
 Source  Plank 1994a: 48 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=3"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan, Australian), Swedish (Germanic, IE)
Notes
See #1055 for the reverse.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1055"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the reverse.