Universal 1370:
- Original
- Intra-locative classifier languages have no quanta classifiers at all.
- Standardized
- IF there are intra-locative classifiers, THEN there are no quanta classifiers.
- Keywords
- classifier, locative
- 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: 306
- Counterexamples
Intra-locative classifier languages are those in which noun classifiers are embedded in some of the locative expressions which obligatorily accompany nouns in most environments. Allan is aware of only 3 languages of such type: Toba (Ge-Pano-Carib), Eskimo (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), and Dyirbal (Australian).