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Universal 1055:
- Original
- If verbs agree in Person, they are even likelier also to agree in Number.
- Standardized
- IF verbs agree in person, THEN they are even likelier also to agree in number.
- Keywords
- agreement, verb, number, person
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 50 languages in Plank 1994a
- Source
- Plank 1994a: 53 (
)
- Counterexamples
- 3.8% of languages in Plank’s sample: Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (V+Sbj), Buginese (W. Malayo-Polynesian. Austronesian).
See #1058 for the reverse.