Universal 563: Duo-Paucal ⇒ Paucal & Mult(itudin)al

Original: If a language knows a Duo-Paucal, it will also contrast a general Paucal with a Multitudinal.
Standardized: IF there is a duo-paucal, THEN there is a contrast between a general paucal and a multal.
Keywords: number, dual, paucal
Domain: inflection
Type: implication
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: languages in Humboldt 1830, including Basque (isolate), Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut), Saami (Uralic), Tahitian, Malay (both Malayo-Polynesian), Indo-European (e.g. Sanskrit, Ancient Greek), Semitic languages, American languages (e.g. Quechua, Totonaca, Huasteca, Mapuche, Tamanaca, Chayma)
Source: Humboldt 1830, as interpreted in Plank 1989: 318; Plank 1994b: 232

Counterexamples: Lithuanian (Baltic, Indo-European); Australian, Austronesian, and Papuan languages (Plank 1989: 319).

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