Universal #1159
Legacy number: 1159
| Number | 1155 |
| Original | For any language, an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction implies the same in postposed ones. |
| Standardized | IF an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase occurs in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction, THEN it also occurs in postposed ones. |
| Keywords | relative clause, order, definite NP |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969 |
| Source | Moravcsik 1969: 81 |
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