Universal #577
Legacy number: 577
| Number | 574 |
| Original | If a language has obligatory marking of (in)definiteness, then it has no stacked adnominal numeral constructions (but not vice versa). |
| Standardized | IF there is obligatory marking of (in)definiteness, THEN there will be no stacked adnominal numeral constructions. |
| Formula | obligatory (in)definiteness marking ⇒ ¬stacked adnominal construction |
| Keywords | definiteness, numeral |
| 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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