Universal 1157: definiteness agreement (head noun & relative clause) ⇒ definiteness agreement (head noun & adjective)

Universal 1157: definiteness agreement (head noun & relative clause) ⇒ definiteness agreement (head noun & adjective)

Original

No language has been found where definiteness agreement between the head and the relative clause would not have implied agreement for the adjective and its head as well.

Standardized

IF a head noun and its relative clause agree in definiteness, THEN head nouns and attributive adjectives also agree in definiteness.

Keywords

agreement, definiteness, relative clause, adjective, attribution

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969

Source

Moravcsik 1969: 81

Counterexamples