Universal #1063

Legacy number: 1063

 Number  1059
 Original  If NP-internal constituents agree in only a single category, this will not be Definiteness; it will most likely be Number.
 Standardized  Whenever NP-internal constituents agree in only a single category, this will not be Definiteness; it will most likely be Number.
 Keywords  agreement, NP, number, definiteness
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
 Source  Plank 1994a: 55 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=10"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)

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Discussion
Notes
But presumably there is an implicational idea behind this:IF agreement in definiteness, THEN in category X;IF agreement in X, then in number.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
But presumably there is an implicational idea behind this:
IF agreement in definiteness, THEN in category X;
IF agreement in X, then in number.