Universal #75

Legacy number: 75

 Number  75
 Original  If a language has noun before numeral, then it has noun before adjective.
 Standardized  IF the numeral follows the noun, THEN the adjective follows the noun.

OR, BY CONTRAPOSITION:
IF the adjective precedes the noun, THEN the numeral precedes the noun.
 Formula  N Num ⇒ N A;
equivalently: A N ⇒ Num N
 Keywords  order, noun, numeral, adjective
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical (according to author absolute)
 Basis  sample of 350 languages in Hawkins 1983
 Source  Hawkins 1983: 82

← Back to Universals Archive

Discussion
Counterexamples
For violations of AN => Num N see counterexamples to #57.
Notes
1. Cf. #57.2. Since the 1990s, Hawkins proposes alternative explanations of his universals (see e.g. Hawkins 1993: 234).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=57"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

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