Universal #142

Legacy number: 142

 Number  142
 Original  In noun-phrase-internal agreement, if adjectives inflect for the dual, so do demonstratives.
 Standardized  In NP-internal agreement, IF adjectives inflect for the dual, THEN demonstratives inflect for dual also.
 Formula  Du (Adj) ⇒ Du (Dem)
 Keywords  agreement, NP, demonstrative, adjective, number, dual
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Plank 1989
 Source  Plank 1989: 308

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Slovene (S. Slavic, Indo-European) and Eastern Libyan Arabic (W. Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), similarly perhaps in other Semitic languages.