Universal #1154

Legacy number: 1154

 Number  1150
 Original  If a language has a distributive-share word, it has a distributive-share numeral word.
 Standardized  IF there is a distributive-share word, THEN there will be a distributive-share numeral word.
 Formula  distributive-share word ⇒ distributive-share numeral word
 Keywords  quantifier, distributive, numeral
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Batak, Bontoc, Indonesian, Tagalog (all W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), Gã (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Maricopa (Hokan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Latin, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish , Russian, English (all Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
 Source  Gil 1992: 325, U8

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