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Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions

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Cinque, Guglielmo·2005·Linguistic Inquiry
DOI 10.1162/0024389054396917
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Of the 24 mathematically possible orders of the four elements demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, only 14 appear to be attested in the languages of the world. Some of these are unexpected under Greenberg's Universal 20. Here it is proposed that the actually attested orders, and none of the unattested ones, are derivable from a single, universal, order of Merge (Dem > Num > Adj > N) and from independent conditions on phrasal movement.

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Authors
Cinque, G.
Venue
Linguistic Inquiry
Publisher
MIT Press - Journals
Published
2005-07
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
315-332
ISSN
  • 0024-3892 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-9150
DOI
10.1162/0024389054396917
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journal article
Language
en
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