Universal 1735: Original If an article is the sole carrier of gender and/or number and/or case, it will co-occur with definite and generic nouns. Standardized…
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Universal 1735: Original If an article is the sole carrier of gender and/or number and/or case, it will co-occur with definite and generic nouns. Standardized…
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Universal 1734: Original The definite article may govern but is never governed by a noun-phrase-internal constituent. Standardized The definite article may govern but is never…
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Universal 1733: Original No noun phrase constituent carries more gender, number, and/or case inflection in adnominal use than it does in pronominal use. Standardized IF…
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Universal 1732: Original The definite article never carries more gender, number, and/or case inflection in adnominal use than it does in pronominal use. Standardized IF…
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Universal 1731: Original If a noun phrase constituent has special adnominal and nominal forms for any of its more marked members, it tends to have…
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Universal 1730: Original The phonological body of any noun phrase constituent is never more substantial in adnominal use than in pronominal use. Standardized The phonological…
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Universal 1729: Original The phonological body of the definite article is never more substantial in adnominal use than in pronominal use. Standardized The phonological body…
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Universal 1728: Original If any non-bound noun phrase constituent can occur nominally, so can all other more peripherally ordered ones. Standardized IF any non-bound noun…
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Universal 1727: Original In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are identical. Standardized In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are…
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Universal 1726: Original Indigenous non-affixal articles are polyfunctional and at least one of their additional uses is pronominal. Standardized Indigenous non-affixal articles are polyfunctional and…