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Universal 513: gender ⇒ number

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Universal 513: gender ⇒ number

Original
If a language has the category of gender, it always has the category of number.
Standardized
IF there is the category of gender, THEN there is always the category of number.
Keywords
number, gender
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
Source
Greenberg 1963: 95, #36
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Cf. #1060.

    1. May 2020

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