Universal #393

Legacy number: 393

 Number  392
 Original  If a language has the category of group plural at all, it will use it only with singular definite nouns, such as proper names, titles, and names of relatives.
 Standardized  When there is the category of associative plural, it will only be used with singular definite nouns, such as proper names, titles, and names of relatives.
 Keywords  number, plural, associative, noun, definite, proper
 Domain  inflection
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Turkish (S. Turkic, Altaic)
 Source  Moravcsik 1994a: 38

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006