Universal 522:
- Original
- In more than one language, but not in all, the demonstrative and the definite article co-occur.
- Standardized
- In more than one language, but not in all, the demonstrative and the definite article co-occur.
- Keywords
- demonstrative, definite article
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 50 languages sample in Moravcsik 1997: 318
- Source
- Moravcsik 1997: 318
- Counterexamples
1. Greenberg 1978: 65 proposes that this pattern is in fact predominant across languages. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1978). How does a language acquire gender markers? In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.). Universals of human language. Volume 3: Word Structure. 47-82. Stanford: Stanford University Press.2. See #967 for an implicational generalization from which the co-occurrence of article and demonstrative is predictable in some languages.