Universal #1061

Legacy number: 1061

 Number  1057
 Original  If verbs agree in Person, they are likelier not to agree than to agree in Gender.
 Standardized  IF verbs agree in person, THEN they are likelier not to agree than to agree in gender.
 Keywords  agreement, verb, person, 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=8"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)

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Discussion
Counterexamples
31.5% of languages in Plank’s sample (which is a lot!): Abkhaz, Tabasaran (both N. Caucasian), Arabic, Israeli Hebrew, Tamazight, Hausa, Beja (all Afro-Asiatic), Kannada (Dravidian), Nama (Khoisan), Swahili (Bantu, Niger-Congo), Ho (Munda, Austroasiatic), Mohawk (Iroquoian), Yimas (Sepik, Papuan), Basque, Burushaski, Ket (all isolates).
Notes
Cf. #1062 for reverse.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1062"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for reverse.