Universal #971

Legacy number: 971

 Number  967
 Original  Plural words are most commonly found in languages which are isolating or head-marking.
 Standardized  IF there are plural words, THEN there is no inflectional morphology or morphology is head-marking.
 Formula  Plural word ⇒ isolating V head-marking
 Keywords  plural word, isolation, head-marking
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  48 languages with plural words in Dryer’s 1989b sample of 307 languages
 Source  Dryer 1989b: 888

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Definition of a Plural word see #970.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Definition of a Plural word see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=970"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.