Universal #1168
Legacy number: 1168
| Number | 1164 |
| Original | ... vocatives do not undergo definitization in any language investigated. Most vocatives take no article at all or take the definite article. |
| Standardized | Vocative nouns (or NPs) take no article or only the definite article, never the indefinite article. |
| Keywords | vocative, definite article |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969 |
| Source | Moravcsik 1969: 72 |
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