Universal #1374

Legacy number: 1374

 Number  1370
 Original  Intra-locative classifier languages have no quanta classifiers at all.
 Standardized  IF there are intra-locative classifiers, THEN there are no quanta classifiers.
 Keywords  classifier, locative
 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: 306

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Discussion
Notes
Intra-locative classifier languages are those in which noun classifiers are embedded in some of the locative expressions which obligatorily accompany nouns in most environments. Allan is aware of only 3 languages of such type: Toba (Ge-Pano-Carib), Eskimo (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), and Dyirbal (Australian).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Intra-locative classifier languages are those in which noun classifiers are embedded in some of the locative expressions which obligatorily accompany nouns in most environments. Allan is aware of only 3 languages of such type: Toba (Ge-Pano-Carib), Eskimo (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), and Dyirbal (Australian).