Universal #565

Legacy number: 565

 Number  563
 Original  If a language knows a Duo-Paucal, it will also contrast a general Paucal with a Multitudinal.
 Standardized  IF there is a duo-paucal, THEN there is a contrast between a general paucal and a multal.
 Formula  Duo-Paucal ⇒ Paucal & Mult(itudin)al
 Keywords  number, dual, paucal
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages in Humboldt 1830, including Basque (isolate), Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut), Saami (Uralic), Tahitian, Malay (both Malayo-Polynesian), Indo-European (e.g. Sanskrit, Ancient Greek), Semitic languages, American languages (e.g. Quechua, Totonaca, Huasteca, Mapuche, Tamanaca, Chayma)
 Source  Humboldt 1830, as interpreted in Plank 1989: 318; Plank 1994b: 232

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Lithuanian (Baltic, Indo-European); Australian, Austronesian, and Papuan languages (Plank 1989: 319).
Notes
MULTAL is a plural for large numbers, contrasting with a PAUCAL.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
MULTAL is a plural for large numbers, contrasting with a PAUCAL.