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Universal 1369:
- Original
- The smaller the number of classifiers in a language, the more likely they are to be configurational rather than material.
- Standardized
- The smaller the number of classifiers in a language, the more likely they are to be configurational rather than material.
- Keywords
- classifier
- Domain
- syntax, semantics
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- more than 50 classifier languages from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania in Allan 1977
- Source
- Allan 1977: 302
- Counterexamples
