Universal #1373
Legacy number: 1373
| Number | 1369 |
| Original | The smaller the number of classifiers in a language, the more likely they are to be configurational rather than material. |
| Standardized | The smaller the number of classifiers in a language, the more likely they are to be configurational rather than material. |
| 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: 302 |
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