Universal #576
Legacy number: 576
| Number | 573 |
| Original | If a language has obligatory marking of (in)definiteness, then it has no obligatory marking of numeral classification (but not vice versa). |
| Standardized | IF there is obligatory marking of (in)definiteness, THEN there will be no obligatory marking of numeral classification. |
| Formula | obligatory (in)definiteness marking ⇒ ¬ obligatory numeral classifier |
| Keywords | definiteness, numeral classifier |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | English, Russian (both Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan) |
| Source | Gil 1987: 254-269 |
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