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Universal 1158:
- Original
- If the indefinite article is derived from the cardinal ‘one’, non-numerable nouns cannot take indefinite article.
- Standardized
- IF the indefinite article is derived from the cardinal ‘one’, THEN non-numerable nouns cannot take indefinite article.
- Keywords
- indefinite article, numeral
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic and diachronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- 106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969
- Source
- Moravcsik 1969: 86
- Counterexamples
- Coptic (Afro-Asiatic), where the indefinite article derived from the cardinal ‘one’ is used with names of materials that are non-numerable.
