Universal #626
Legacy number: 626
| Number | 623 |
| Original | If a language has distributive-share quantifier words, it has non-configurational NPs, and does not distinguish between nouns of low and high countability preference. |
| Standardized | IF there are distributive-share quantifier words, THEN NPs are non-configurational, and nouns of low and high countability preference are indistinguishable. |
| Keywords | quantifier word, distributive, non-configurational NP |
| Domain | syntax, semantics |
| Type | implication |
| 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: 324, U6 |
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