Universal #116

Legacy number: 116

 Number  116
 Original  ... number is, as has been seen, closer to the stem and generally present when case is present, while the opposite relation holds far more rarely.
 Standardized  IF there is the category of case, THEN there is also the category of number.
 Formula  case ⇒ number
 Keywords  number, case
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
 Source  inferred by Uspensky 1965: 211 from Greenberg 1963: 103

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Notes
See also #229, due to old Tommaso Campanella.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=229"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, due to old Tommaso Campanella.