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Universal 1166:
- Original
- For any particular language, definiteness contrast obligatorily expressed for any noun phrase implies such contrast in the object noun phrase.
- Standardized
- IF there is definiteness contrast for noun-phrases other than object, THEN there is definiteness contrast in the object noun phrase.
- Keywords
- object, definiteness
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 106 languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1969
- Source
- Moravcsik 1969: 67
- Counterexamples
