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 |
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)
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