Universal #1200

Legacy number: 1200

 Number  1196
 Original  If a language has a category of adjectives, this class is likely to include at least members of the semantic types AGE, DIMENSION, VALUE and COLOR, however small it is.
 Standardized  IF any other semantic types are expressed by words of the word class of adjectives, THEN members of the semantic types AGE, DIMENSION, VALUE and COLOR are likely also to be expressed by adjectives.
 Formula  Adj ⇒ Adj(color) & Adj(dimension) & Adj(age) & Adj(value)
 Keywords  word classes, adjective
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Dixon 1977
 Source  Dixon 1977: 29

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See #141.[Give references to related work, e.g. by Pustet, Wetzer, Stassen.]
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=141"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

[Give references to related work, e.g. by Pustet, Wetzer, Stassen.]