Universal #237

Legacy number: 237

 Number  237
 Original  If adjectives inflect for any category, nouns inflect for this category as well.
 Standardized  IF adjectives inflect for any category, THEN nouns inflect for this category as well.
 Formula  category X (adjective) ⇒ category X (noun)
 Keywords  adjective, noun, inflection
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Ancient and Modern Greek (both Greek), French, Italian, Latin (all Italic), English, "Gothic" (both Germanic), Classical Armenian (Armenian), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
 Source  Smith 1761 [1983], as interpreted in Plank 1992: 44

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Germanic, where adjectives inflect for "weak/strong" (definite/indefinite), which nouns don't (except perhaps in Scandinavian, if definiteness marking on nouns is inflectional)Also, nouns don't really INFLECT for gender.
Notes
Cf. ##148, 285, 254.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=148"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=285"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=254"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">