Universal #1722
Legacy number: 1722
| Number | 1717 |
| Original | If possessive determiners co-occur with demonstratives, then nominal possessives co-occur with definite articles. |
| Standardized | IF possessive determiners co-occur with demonstratives, THEN nominal possessives co-occur with definite articles. |
| Formula | adnominally possessors co-occur with demonstratives ⇒ nominally used possessives possessives co-occur with definite articles |
| Keywords | article, definiteness, possession, demonstrative |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Plank 1991a, including English, Welsh, Modern and Old French, German, Modern and Old Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Classical Greek |
| Source | Plank 1991a(2): 6, cited in Moravcsik 1994b |
Discussion
Notes
Cf. #524.
Comment
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