Universal 1728:

Original: If any non-bound noun phrase constituent can occur nominally, so can all other more peripherally ordered ones.
Standardized: IF any non-bound noun phrase constituent can occur nominally, THEN so can all other more peripherally ordered ones.
Keywords: NP, boundedness, order, noun
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 (?)
Source: Moravcsik 1994b

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