Universal #572

Legacy number: 572

 Number  569
 Original  No (Indo-European) language does without both morphological case marking and articles.
 Standardized  (In Indo-European) IF there is no nominal case marking, THEN there will be an article.
 Formula  ¬ case (noun) ⇒ article;
¬ article ⇒ case (noun)
 Keywords  case, article
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  a Indo-Euroversal rather than a universal
 Basis  Indo-European languages
 Source  Renzi 1992: 161-176

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Discussion
Counterexamples
counter-evidence outside Indo-European: Chinese (Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan).