Universal #1056

Legacy number: 1056

 Number  1052
 Original  If determiners and modifiers agree both with head nouns, head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns, and vice versa.
 Standardized  IF determiners and modifiers both agree with head nouns, THEN head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns.
IF head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns, THEN both determiners and modifiers agree with head nouns.
 Formula 
 Keywords  agreement, NP, determiner, modifier, attribution
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
 Source  Plank 1994a: 51 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)

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Israeli Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)