Universal #1058
Legacy number: 1058
| Number | 1054 |
| Original | If verbs agree in Number, they are very likely to agree in Person. |
| Standardized | IF verbs agree in number, THEN they are very likely to agree in person. |
| Keywords | agreement, verb, number, person |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a |
| Source | Plank 1994a: 53 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=5"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) |
Discussion
Counterexamples
16.7% of languages in Plank’s sample: Archi, Avar (both N. Caucasian), Modern Aramaic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), French (Vprtcpl, controller: DObj), Russian (in preterite; Slavonic, IE), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan), Mansi (Ugric, Uralic) (controller: DObj), Nivkh (isolate), Samoan (E. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian).
Notes
See #1059 for the reverse.
Comment
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1059"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the reverse.
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