Universal #578

Legacy number: 578

 Number  575
 Original  There is no language which distinguishes a Dual and a Plural in the exclusive but not in the inclusive form of pronoun.
 Standardized  IF a dual and a plural are distinguished in the 1st person exclusive form of a pronoun, THEN they are also distinguished in the inclusive.
 Formula  Du & Pl (exclusive pronoun) ⇒ Du & Pl (inclusive pronoun)
 Keywords  number, dual, plural, pronoun, inclusive, exclusive
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b
 Source  Moravcsik 1978b: 352

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Discussion
Counterexamples
1. Savo (East Papuan) (Greenberg 1988: 2);2. Yagua (Peba-Yaguan);3. Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) has a dual with 1st person exclusive, but not with 1st person inclusive, at least according to the grammatical description of Voegelin (1935); the accompanying collection of texts, however, tells a different story (caveat credited to M. Cysouw);4. Ngankikurrungkurr (Daly, Australian) (Hoddinott 1988: 94) (credited to M. Cysouw)
Notes
1. Greenberg makes this claim for Dual only, cf. #1876. 2. Cf. a more specific claim by Greenberg: #1410.3. See discussion in Plank 1989: 304-305.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Greenberg makes this claim for Dual only, cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1876"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.
2. Cf. a more specific claim by Greenberg: <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1410"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.
3. See discussion in Plank 1989: 304-305.