Universal #632
Legacy number: 632
| Number | 629 |
| Original | If a language uses reduplication to form portmanteau from ordinary quantifier words, then it forms distributive-share quantifier words by reduplication. |
| Standardized | IF reduplication is used to form portmanteau from ordinary quantifier words, THEN distributive-share quantifier words are formed by reduplication as well. |
| Keywords | quantifier, distributive, reduplication, portmanteau |
| Domain | morphology |
| 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: 328, U11 |
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