Universal 1056:

Universal 1056:

Original

If verbs agree in Gender, they are very likely also to agree in Number.

Standardized

IF verbs agree in gender, THEN they are very likely also to agree in number.

Keywords

agreement, verb, number, gender

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: Burushaski (isolate) (controller: DObj), Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic) (V+Sbj)