Universal #285

Legacy number: 285

 Number  284
 Original  If an adjective has the categories of gender and/or number and/or case, then the noun has these categories also.
 Standardized  IF the adjective inflects for gender and/or number and/or case, THEN the noun inflects for these categories also.
 Formula  gender(Adj) &,V number(adj) &,V case(adj) ⇒ gender(noun) &,V number(noun) &,V case(noun)
 Keywords  adjective, noun, number, gender, case
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  ?
 Source  see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Rozdestvenskij

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Do nouns really inflect for gender in lgs like the IE ones, rather than only being lexically specified for gender?
Notes
1. See also ##277, 254.2. Cf. ##148, 237.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=277"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=254"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

2. 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=237"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">