Universal #314
Legacy number: 314
| Number | 313 |
| Original | In an overwhelming majority of languages all or almost all markers of the syntactic form of the indefinitive* are zero markers. |
| Standardized | Indefinitiveness* tends to be expressed by zero. |
| Keywords | indefinitive, zero |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981 |
| Source | Kozinsky 1981 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Nama (Khoisan), Tunica (isolate remotely related to Algonquian) (Kozinsky 1981)
Notes
See comments to #310.
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