Universal #1059
Legacy number: 1059
| Number | 1055 |
| Original | If verbs agree in Person, they are even likelier also to agree in Number. |
| Standardized | IF verbs agree in person, THEN they are even likelier also to agree in number. |
| 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=6"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) |
Discussion
Counterexamples
3.8% of languages in Plank’s sample: Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (V+Sbj), Buginese (W. Malayo-Polynesian. Austronesian).
Notes
See #1058 for the reverse.
Comment
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1058"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the reverse.
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