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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