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Universal 1155:

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Universal 1155:

Original
For any language, an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction implies the same in postposed ones.
Standardized
IF an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase occurs in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction, THEN it also occurs in postposed ones.
Keywords
relative clause, order, definite NP
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969
Source
Moravcsik 1969: 81
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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