Universal 468: number marker (noun) = number marker (1&2 person verb)) ⇒ number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb))

Universal 468: number marker (noun) = number marker (1&2 person verb)) ⇒ number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb))

Original

If marking of number is phonologically identical for nouns and verbal forms in the 1st and 2nd person, this will also be the case for nouns and verbal forms of the 3rd person.

Standardized

IF the marking for number is identical for nouns and verbal forms of 1st and 2nd person, THEN this will also be true for nouns and verbal forms of 3rd person.

Keywords

number, person, 1, 2, 3, noun, verb

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

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

Source

Walter 1981: 112

Counterexamples