Universal 621:

Original: Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts.
Standardized: Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts.
Keywords: quantifier, distributive, head noun, boundedness
Domain: syntax, semantics
Type: unconditional
Status: achronic
Quality: absolute
Basis: Batak, Bontoc, Indonesian, Tagalog (all W. Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian), Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), Gã (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Georgian (S. Caucasian), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Maricopa (Hokan), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Latin, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish , Russian, English (all Indo-European), Hebrew (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic)
Source: Gil 1992: 319, U4

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This universal applies only to ‘every’-like quantifiers, not to ‘each’-like ones. Thus, for example, ‘each’- unlike ‘every’ – may occur in a variety of more loosely-bound constructions, for example ‘each of them’, ‘each of George’s men’ and so forth. (Gil 1992: 342)

1. May 2020

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