If the article co-occurs with the noun when the demonstrative or the possessive is preposed, it also co-occurs with the noun when the demonstrative or the possessive is postposed.
Standardized
IF the article co-occurs with the noun when the demonstrative or the possessive is preposed, THEN the article co-occurs with the noun when the demonstrative or the possessive is postposed.
Keywords
article, possessive, demonstrative, order
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute?
Basis
languages surveyed in Moravcsik 1994b, including Hungarian, Mari (both Finno-Ugric), Albanian (Albanian, IE), Classical and Modern Greek (Greek, IE), English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Frisian, Old Icelandic (all Germanic, IE), Welsh, Breton, Manx (all Celtic, IE), Spanish, Rumanian, Romantsch, Latin, Sardinian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Occitan (all Romance, IE), Macedonian (Slavic, IE), Abkhaz (NW Caucasian), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Maltese (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Basque (isolate), Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Samoan (Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian), Berbice Dutch Creole, Toba (Western Malayo-Polynesian), Chantyal (?)
