Universal #149

Legacy number: 149

 Number  149
 Original  The number of inflectional classes of adjectives is never larger than the number of inflectional classes of nouns.
 Standardized  The number of inflectional classes of adjectives cannot be larger than the number of inflectional classes of nouns.
 Keywords  inflection class, word class, adjective, noun
 Domain  inflection
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Carstairs 1984
 Source  Carstairs 1984, also cited in Plank 1991b: 35

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Discussion
Notes
can presumably be reformulated as an implication:IF there are n inflection classes for adjectives, THEN there will be at least n inflection classes for nouns.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
can presumably be reformulated as an implication:
IF there are n inflection classes for adjectives, THEN there will be at least n inflection classes for nouns.