Universal #524

Legacy number: 524

 Number  522
 Original  In more than one language, but not in all, the demonstrative and the definite article co-occur.
 Standardized  In more than one language, but not in all, the demonstrative and the definite article co-occur.
 Keywords  demonstrative, definite article
 Domain  syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  50 languages sample in Moravcsik 1997: 318
 Source  Moravcsik 1997: 318

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Discussion
Notes
1. Greenberg 1978: 65 proposes that this pattern is in fact predominant across languages. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1978). How does a language acquire gender markers? In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.). Universals of human language. Volume 3: Word Structure. 47-82. Stanford: Stanford University Press.2. See #967 for an implicational generalization from which the co-occurrence of article and demonstrative is predictable in some languages.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Greenberg 1978: 65 proposes that this pattern is in fact predominant across languages. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1978). How does a language acquire gender markers? In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.). Universals of human language. Volume 3: Word Structure. 47-82. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2. See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=967"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for an implicational generalization from which the co-occurrence of article and demonstrative is predictable in some languages.