Universal #1899

Legacy number: 1899

 Number  1894
 Original  No inflectional affixes can belong to the set of properties borrowed fro a language unless at least one derivational affix also belongs to the set.
 Standardized  IF there ais a borrowed inflectional affix, THEN there is a borrowed derivational affix.
 Keywords  language contact, borrowing, affix
 Domain  morphology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentions in Moravcsik 1978e
 Source  Moravcsik 1978e: 112

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Bilin (Cushitic, Afro-Asiatic) borrowed a set of object pronoun suffixes from Tigre (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), yet no derivational borrowing has this far been demonstrated. The Ethiopian Semitic languages Zway, Soddo and Gafat acquired their verbal prefix ‘ti-’, a bound morpheme, from either Sidamo or Omotic, with no derivational loan from the same sources. (Hetzron 1980: 255)