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Universal 1896:

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Universal 1896:

Original
Given a particular language, and given a particular constituent class such that at least some members of that class are not inflected in that language, if the language has borrowed lexical items that belong to that constituent class, at least some of these must also be uninflected.
Standardized
When at least some words of a particular word class are uninflected, words of that some word class that are borrowed must include ones which are equally uninflected.
Keywords
language contact, borrowing
Domain
inflection
Type
unconditional
Status
diachronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages mentions in Moravcsik 1978e
Source
Moravcsik 1978e: 112
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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