Universal 946:
- Original
- The more a language is fusional, the more phonological rules are needed to serve morphological fusion.
- Standardized
- The more a language is fusional, the more phonological rules are needed to serve morphological fusion.
- Keywords
- fusion
- Domain
- phonology, morphology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Dressler 1979: 264
- Counterexamples
Looks like a tautology, at least if “fusion“ is understood in the sense of Sapir (who is referred to here).Or is the idea that morphological fusion will co-occur with phonological fusion? But what is MORPHOLOGICAL fusion, then?