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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