1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 1053: Posted in Universals Archive Universal 1053: Original If determiners agree within NPs, modifiers are likelier also to agree than not to agree. Standardized IF determiners agree within NPs, modifiers are likelier also to agree than not to agree. Keywords agreement, NP, determiner, modifier Domain inflection, syntax Type implication Status achronic Quality statistical Basis sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a Source Plank 1994a: 51 () Counterexamples 13.1% of languages in Plank’s sample: English (Germanic, IE), Palauan (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Ho (Munda, Austroasiatic), Hopi (Uto-Aztecan), Kannada (Dravidian) Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.