Universal #1372

Legacy number: 1372

 Number  1368
 Original  No language contrasts a 'round' classifier with a 'polyhedral' classifier, unless the latter is the classifier for buildings, or some similar material classifier.
 Standardized  No language contrasts a 'round' classifier with a 'polyhedral' classifier, unless the latter is the classifier for buildings, or some similar material classifier.
 Keywords  classifier
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  more than 50 classifier languages from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania in Allan 1977
 Source  Allan 1977: 300

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Discussion
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Most languages which don't use material classifiers for various polyhedral objects locate them in the 'round' class.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Most languages which don't use material classifiers for various polyhedral objects locate them in the 'round' class.