Universal #1506
Legacy number: 1506
| Number | 1502 |
| Original | If there are regular violations of the tonal pattern in imperative or vocative forms, then there is a special redistribution of tones in questions, commands, addresses, emphatic utterances. |
| Standardized | IF there are regular violations of the tonal pattern in imperative or vocative forms, THEN there is a special redistribution of tones in questions, commands, addresses, emphatic utterances. |
| Keywords | tone, imperative mood, vocative, interrogative sentence, emphasis, anomaly |
| Domain | phonology, morphology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Uspensky & Zhivov 1977 |
| Source | Uspensky & Zhivov 1973: 33, Uspensky & Zhivov 1977: 15 |
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