Universal #469

Legacy number: 469

 Number  467
 Original  If marking for nominal and verbal Number is phonologically identical, this will be the case for nouns and verbs of the 3rd person.
 Standardized  IF the marking for nominal and verbal number is phonologically identical, THEN this will be the case for nouns and verbs of the 3rd person.
 Formula  (number marker (noun) = number marker (verb)) ⇒ (number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb))
 Keywords  number, person, 3, noun, verb
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Turkish (S. Turkic, Altaic)
 Source  Walter 1981: 112

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Discussion
Notes
implicationally:IF identity for 1st/2nd person THEN for 3rd person.See #470.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
implicationally: IF identity for 1st/2nd person THEN for 3rd person. See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=470"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">