Universal #426

Legacy number: 426

 Number  425
 Original  The presence of plural in the nouns of a particular language always implies its presence in some pronouns, this implication does not apply to the dual and the trial.
 Standardized  IF nouns inflect for plural, THEN so will at least some of the pronouns.
 Formula  Pl (nouns) ⇒ Pl (pronouns)
 Keywords  number, plural, noun, pronoun
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b
 Source  Moravcsik 1978b: 348

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