Universal #1943

Legacy number: 1943

 Number  1937
 Original  If there is a word-form loan of a personal indefinite in a language, then there is a word-form loan of an temporal indefinite of the same indefiniteness function, too.
 Standardized  IF there is a word-form borrowing of a personal indefinite in a language, THEN there is a word-form borrowing of an temporal indefinite of the same indefiniteness function, too.
 Keywords  borrowing, pronoun, definiteness
 Domain  lexicon, morphology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  mainly based on survey of Romani dialects (Indo-Aryan, IE), but also Aromunian (E. Romance, IE), Chamorro (W. Malayo-Polynesian), Saami (Finno-Ugric, Uralic), Swahili (Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo), Spanish (Romance, IE), Persian (Iranian, IE), Turkic languages, Dardic languages, Albanian (Albanian, IE), Kormakita Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) and others
 Source  Elšík 2001: 139

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Discussion
Notes
Derived from ## 1936, 1939.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Derived from <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1936"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1939"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.