Universal #470

Legacy number: 470

 Number  468
 Original  If marking of number is phonologically identical for nouns and verbal forms in the 1st and 2nd person, this will also be the case for nouns and verbal forms of the 3rd person.
 Standardized  IF the marking for number is identical for nouns and verbal forms of 1st and 2nd person, THEN this will also be true for nouns and verbal forms of 3rd person.
 Formula  number marker (noun) = number marker (1&2 person verb)) ⇒ number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb))
 Keywords  number, person, 1, 2, 3, noun, verb
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 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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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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