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Universal 1053:

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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)

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    1. May 2020

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