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Universal 577:

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Universal 577:

Original
If any inflectional category is expressed through suppletion in nouns, it is also expressed suppletively in pronouns or verbs.
Standardized
IF any inflectional category is expressed through suppletion in nouns, THEN it is also expressed suppletively in pronouns or verbs.
Keywords
suppletion, noun, verb, pronoun
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Moravcsik 1993, Sugomoto 1989
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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