Universal #1172
Legacy number: 1172
| Number | 1168 |
| Original | If a language possesses simple and distributive-key universal quantifiers, and the two are morphologically related, then the distributive-key quantifier is derived from the simple universal quantifier by a morphosyntactic process. |
| Standardized | IF there are simple and distributive-key universal quantifiers, and the two are morphologically related, THEN the distributive-key quantifier is derived from the simple universal quantifier by a morphosyntactic process. |
| Keywords | quantifier, distributive, universal |
| Domain | lexicon |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Georgian, Lezgian (both Caucasian), English, Ancient Greek, Russian, Spanish, Punjabi, Persian (all Indo-European), Lakhota (Siouan), Maricopa (Hokan), Hebrew, Maltese, Galilean Arabic, Jewish Marrakesh Arabic (all Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Bambara, Yoruba, Gã (all Niger-Congo), Buginese, Malay, Tagalog (all Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Malayalam (Dravidian), Mandarin (Chinese, Sino-Tibetan), Nubian (E. Sudanic, Nilo-Saharan), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) |
| Source | Gil 1995: 329, U3 |
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