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Universal 1726:

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Universal 1726:

Original
Indigenous non-affixal articles are polyfunctional and at least one of their additional uses is pronominal.
Standardized
Indigenous non-affixal articles are polyfunctional and at least one of their additional uses is pronominal.
Keywords
article, pronoun
Domain
syntax
Type
unconditional
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 (?)
Source
Moravcsik 1994b
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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