Universal #1176

Legacy number: 1176

 Number  1172
 Original  If a language possesses a distributive-share universal quantifier, it possesses a simple universal quantifier.
 Standardized  IF there is a distributive-share universal quantifier, THEN there will be a simple universal quantifier.
 Formula  distributive-share universal quantifier ⇒ simple universal quantifier
 Keywords  quantifier, distributive, universal
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Georgian, Lezgian (both Caucasian), English, Ancient Greek, Russian, Spanish, Punjabi, Persian (all IE), 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: 348, U7

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