Universal #1739
Legacy number: 1739
| Number | 1734 |
| Original | The definite article may govern but is never governed by a noun-phrase-internal constituent. |
| Standardized | The definite article may govern but is never governed by a noun-phrase-internal constituent. |
| Keywords | definite article, NP, government |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | unconditional |
| 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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