Universal #1057
Legacy number: 1057
| Number | 1053 |
| Original | If determiners agree within NPs, modifiers are likelier also to agree than not to agree. |
| Standardized | IF determiners agree within NPs, modifiers are likelier also to agree than not to agree. |
| Keywords | agreement, NP, determiner, modifier |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | 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=2"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) |
Discussion
Counterexamples
13.1% of languages in Plank’s sample: English (Germanic, IE), Palauan (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Ho (Munda, Austroasiatic), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan), Kannada (Dravidian)
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