Universal #515

Legacy number: 515

 Number  513
 Original  If a language has the category of gender, it always has the category of number.
 Standardized  IF there is the category of gender, THEN there is always the category of number.
 Formula  gender ⇒ number
 Keywords  number, gender
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
 Source  Greenberg 1963: 95, #36

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Cf. #1060.
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1060"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">