Universal 310:
- Original
- If some nouns have a syntactic form of indefinitive*, then the citation form coincides exactly with this syntactic form.
- Standardized
- The citation form of the noun tends to be the indefinitive form, if indefinitive contrasts with other forms.
- Keywords
- noun, indefinitive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981
- Source
- Kozinsky 1981
- Counterexamples
- Nama (Khoisan)(Kozinsky 1981)
See comments to #310.