Universal #1733

Legacy number: 1733

 Number  1728
 Original  If any non-bound noun phrase constituent can occur nominally, so can all other more peripherally ordered ones.
 Standardized  IF any non-bound noun phrase constituent can occur nominally, THEN so can all other more peripherally ordered ones.
 Keywords  NP, boundedness, order, noun
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1994b, including Hungarian, Mari (both Finno-Ugric), Albanian (Albanian, IE), Classical and Modern Greek (Greek, IE), English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Frisian, Old Icelandic (all Germanic, IE), Welsh, Breton, Manx (all Celtic, IE), Spanish, Rumanian, Romantsch, Latin, Sardinian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Occitan (all Romance, IE), Macedonian (Slavic, IE), Abkhaz (NW Caucasian), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Maltese (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Basque (isolate), Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Samoan (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Berbice Dutch Creole, Toba (Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chantyal (?)
 Source  Moravcsik 1994b

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