Universal #311

Legacy number: 311

 Number  310
 Original  If some nouns have a syntactic form of indefinitive*, then the citation form coincides exactly with this syntactic form.
 Standardized  The citation form of the noun tends to be the indefinitive form, if indefinitive contrasts with other forms.
 Keywords  noun, indefinitive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
 Source  Kozinsky 1981

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Nama (Khoisan)(Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
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Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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