Universal 391: associative Plural ⇒ basic Plural

Universal 391: associative Plural ⇒ basic Plural

Original

If a language has a group plural, it also has a basic plural.

Standardized

IF there is a associative plural, THEN there is a basic plural as well.

Keywords

number, plural, associative

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Tagalog (W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Turkish (S. Turkic, Altaic)

Source

Moravcsik 1994a: 38

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