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Universal 1752:
- Original
- Provided cardinal and ordinal numerals are ordered differently relative to nouns, cardinals always precede nouns and ordinals always follow them.
- Standardized
- When cardinal and ordinal numerals are ordered differently relative to nouns, cardinals always precede nouns and ordinals always follow them.
- Keywords
- numeral, ordinal, cardinal, noun, order
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 100 languages, listed in the appendix
- Source
- Stolz 1999
- Counterexamples
