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Universal 398:

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Universal 398:

Original
If a language has homonymous inflectional affixes that express a single meaning element, then, if the language has cumulative inflection at all, some of those will also be homonymous.
Standardized
When there are homonymous inflectional affixes that express a single meaning element, IF there is cumulative inflection at all, THEN some of those will also be homonymous.
Keywords
homonymy, affix, cumulation
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
Source
Moravcsik 1994a: 43
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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