Universal #624

Legacy number: 624

 Number  621
 Original  Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts.
 Standardized  Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts.
 Keywords  quantifier, distributive, head noun, boundedness
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Batak, Bontoc, Indonesian, Tagalog (all W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), Gã (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Maricopa (Hokan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Latin, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish , Russian, English (all Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
 Source  Gil 1992: 319, U4

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Discussion
Notes
This universal applies only to ‘every’-like quantifiers, not to ‘each’-like ones. Thus, for example, ‘each’- unlike ‘every’ - may occur in a variety of more loosely-bound constructions, for example ‘each of them’, ‘each of George’s men’ and so forth. (Gil 1992: 342)
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
This universal applies only to 'every'-like quantifiers, not to 'each'-like ones. Thus, for example, 'each'- unlike 'every' - may occur in a variety of more loosely-bound constructions, for example 'each of them', 'each of George's men' and so forth. (Gil 1992: 342)