Universal 1196: Adj ⇒ Adj(color) & Adj(dimension) & Adj(age) & Adj(value)

Universal 1196: Adj ⇒ Adj(color) & Adj(dimension) & Adj(age) & Adj(value)

Original

If a language has a category of adjectives, this class is likely to include at least members of the semantic types AGE, DIMENSION, VALUE and COLOR, however small it is.

Standardized

IF any other semantic types are expressed by words of the word class of adjectives, THEN members of the semantic types AGE, DIMENSION, VALUE and COLOR are likely also to be expressed by adjectives.

Keywords

word classes, adjective

Domain

syntax, semantics

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages in Dixon 1977

Source

Dixon 1977: 29

Counterexamples