Universal 967: Plural word ⇒ isolating V head-marking

Original: Plural words are most commonly found in languages which are isolating or head-marking.
Standardized: IF there are plural words, THEN there is no inflectional morphology or morphology is head-marking.
Keywords: plural word, isolation, head-marking
Domain: inflection, syntax
Type: implication
Status: achronic
Quality: statistical
Basis: 48 languages with plural words in Dryer’s 1989b sample of 307 languages
Source: Dryer 1989b: 888

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