Universal #1060
Legacy number: 1060
| Number | 1056 |
| Original | If verbs agree in Gender, they are very likely also to agree in Number. |
| Standardized | IF verbs agree in gender, THEN they are very likely also to agree in number. |
| Keywords | agreement, verb, number, gender |
| 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=7"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) |
Discussion
Counterexamples
3.8% of languages in Plank’s sample: Burushaski (isolate) (controller: DObj), Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (V+Sbj)
Notes
Cf. # 515.
Comment
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=515"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">
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