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Universal 368: vowel harmony ⇒ agglutinative morphology

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Universal 368: vowel harmony ⇒ agglutinative morphology

Original
Typically, agglutinative languages, where stems and affixes are bound together more loosely than in flective and introflective languages, use vowel harmony for signaling which morphs are part of the same word forms.
Standardized
IF there is vowel harmony, THEN morphology tends to be agglutinative.
Keywords
agglutination, vowel harmony
Domain
phonology, morphology
Type
mutual implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Dressler 1985, adapted from Skalicka: Plank 1996, Plank 1998
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. Implication presumably intended as mutual: “mutually conducive traits”.2. Cf. # 713.3. For a tabular summary of Skalicka’s typological “constructs” see Plank 1998: 204-205.

    1. May 2020

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