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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