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Universal 1150: distributive-share word ⇒ distributive-share numeral word
- Original
- If a language has a distributive-share word, it has a distributive-share numeral word.
- Standardized
- IF there is a distributive-share word, THEN there will be a distributive-share numeral word.
- Keywords
- quantifier, distributive, numeral
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Batak, Bontoc, Indonesian, Tagalog (all W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), Gã (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Maricopa (Hokan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Latin, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish , Russian, English (all Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
- Source
- Gil 1992: 325, U8
- Counterexamples