Universal #1055

Legacy number: 1055

 Number  1051
 Original  If there is agreement within clauses, agreement is likelier to be used than not to be used within NPs.
 Standardized  IF there is agreement within clauses, THEN agreement is likelier to be used than not to be used within NPs.
 Keywords  agreement, NP, clause
 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
12% of languages in Plank’s sample: Abkhaz, Archi (both N. Caucasian), Basque, Nivkh, Sumerian (all isolates), Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), Erzya Mordva (Uralic), Fore (Trans-New Guinea, Papuan), Mohawk (Iroquoian), Mongolian (Altaic), Nama (Khoisan), Tamazight (Berber, Afro-Asiatic)
Notes
See #1054 for the much truer reverse.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1054"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the much truer reverse.