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implicational universals
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One of the classes of linguistic universals, taking the form if A, then B, where A and B are two properties of languages. A typical example, suggested by the US linguist Joseph H. Greenberg (1915–2001), is the following: If a language has gender (2) categories in nouns, then it has gender categories in pronouns.
Subjects: Science and technology — Psychology
