Universal #525

Legacy number: 525

 Number  523
 Original  In more than one language, and possibly in all, preposed demonstratives are peripheral to tautolateral numerals and adjectives; postposed demonstratives are most frequently so.
 Standardized  In more than one language, and possibly in all, preposed demonstratives are peripheral to tautolateral numerals and adjectives; postposed demonstratives are most frequently so.
 Keywords  order, demonstrative, numeral, adjective, noun
 Domain  syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical, almost absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed by Moravcsik 1997
 Source  Moravcsik 1997: 318

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006