Universal #74

Legacy number: 74

 Number  74
 Original  If a language has Prep word order, then if the numeral follows the noun, the adjective follows the noun.
 Standardized  IF there are prepositions, THEN IF the numeral follows the noun, THEN the adjective follows the noun.
 Formula  Prep ⇒ (N Num ⇒ N A)
 Keywords  order, preposition, noun, numeral, adjective
 Domain  syntax
 Type  nested implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical (according to author absolute)
 Basis  sample of 350 languages in Hawkins 1983
 Source  Hawkins 1983: 72

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Prep & NNum & AN: Gbeya Bossangoa, Sango, Linda, Zande, Nzakara, Barambu (Adamawa-Ubangian); Gude (Biu-Mandara, Chadic, Afroasiatic), Hausa, Pa’anci (Chadic, Afroasiatic) (Dryer 2000).
Notes
1. Dryer 1988: 198: “There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Adposition-Noun and Adjective-Noun order.”2. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Dryer 1988: 198: "There is no clear evidence for the correlation between Adposition-Noun and Adjective-Noun order."

2. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).