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Universal 1727:
- Original
- In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are identical.
- Standardized
- In most languages the demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective are identical.
- Keywords
- demonstrative
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- mutual implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- 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
- Greenberg 1978b: 75, Moravcsik 1994b
- Counterexamples
In other, implicational words:IF demonstratives occur adnominally, THEN they also occur independently, forming an NP of their own, and vice versa.