Universal #229
Legacy number: 229
| Number | 229 |
| Original | If nominals inflect for number, they also inflect for case. |
| Standardized | IF nominals inflect for number, THEN they also inflect for case. |
| Formula | number (noun) ⇒ case (noun) |
| Keywords | noun, number, case |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | Arabic, Chaldean, Hebrew (all Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Turkish (S. Turkic, Altaic), Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish (all Indo-European), Chinese (Sino-Tibetan), Vietnamese (Mon-Khmer) |
| Source | Campanella 1638, as interpreted in Plank 1999: 8 |
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See also # 116.
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