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Universal 521: adnominal Adj agreement (noun) ⇒ adnominal Dem agreement (noun)

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Universal 521: adnominal Adj agreement (noun) ⇒ adnominal Dem agreement (noun)

Original
In more than one language, and possibly in all, if the adnominal adjective agrees with the noun, so does the adnominal demonstrative.
Standardized
IF the adnominal adjective agrees with the noun, THEN so does the adnominal demonstrative.
Keywords
agreement, demonstrative, adjective, NP
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute?
Basis
languages surveyed by Moravcsik 1997
Source
Moravcsik 1997: 317
Counterexamples
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    Based on a survey of the languages of Europe, research by A. Siewierska and D. Bakker (as cited in Plank 1994a: 51) yielded the following hierarchy of agreement targets:Demonstrative < AttrAdjective < Pred Adjective < Article.In other words, if any one or more of the three constituents – attributive and predicative adjective and article – agree with the noun, the demonstrative does so too.

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