Universal 444: agglutinative ⇒ complement-balancing & complement-deranking;
flexive ⇒ complement-balancing

Universal 444: agglutinative ⇒ complement-balancing & complement-deranking;
flexive ⇒ complement-balancing

Original

Agglutinating languages can be complement-balancing and complement-deranking, while fusional languages are complement-balancing.

Standardized

IF morphologyis agglutinative, THEN there is complement-balancing and complement-deranking.
IF morphology is flexive, THEN there is complement-balancing.

Keywords

agglutination, flexion, complement-deranking, complement-balancing

Domain

morphology, syntax

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages mentioned in Jaxontov 1981

Source

Jaxontov 1981, adapted in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 246

Counterexamples