Universal #119

Legacy number: 119

 Number  119
 Original  If NP-internal constituents agree in two categories these will most likely be number and gender or number and person, depending on whether the targets are modifiers/determiners (and the controllers head nouns) or head nouns (and the controllers attributive nouns). The second-most likely combination of two categories with modifier/determiner targets is that of number and case; and the only other permissible combination of two categories is that of gender and case.
 Standardized  IF NP-internal constituents agree in two categories, THEN these will most likely be number and gender or number and person, depending on whether the targets are modifiers/determiners (and the controllers head nouns) or head nouns (and the controllers attributive nouns). The second-most likely combination of two categories with modifier/determiner targets is that of number and case; and the only other permissible combination of two categories is that of gender and case.
 Keywords  NP, agreement, number, gender, case, person
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  45 languages surveyed in Plank 1994a
 Source  Plank 1994a : 55 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=11"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">)

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