Universal #1741

Legacy number: 1741

 Number  1736
 Original  If a less peripherally ordered noun phrase constituent marks gender, number, and/or case redundantly, so can all more peripherally ordered constituents.
 Standardized  IF a less peripherally ordered noun phrase constituent marks gender, number, and/or case redundantly, THEN all more peripherally ordered constituents can mark these categories redundantly.
 Keywords  NP, order, case, number, gender, agreement
 Domain  inflection, 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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Discussion
Notes
More generally: If a less peripherally ordered noun phrase constituent carries redundant information, so may all more peripherally ordered constituents. (Moravcsik 1994b)
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
More generally:
If a less peripherally ordered noun phrase constituent carries redundant information, so may all more peripherally ordered constituents. (Moravcsik 1994b)