Universal #1901
Legacy number: 1901
| Number | 1896 |
| Original | Given a particular language, and given a particular constituent class such that at least some members of that class are not inflected in that language, if the language has borrowed lexical items that belong to that constituent class, at least some of these must also be uninflected. |
| Standardized | When at least some words of a particular word class are uninflected, words of that some word class that are borrowed must include ones which are equally uninflected. |
| Keywords | language contact, borrowing |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages mentions in Moravcsik 1978e |
| Source | Moravcsik 1978e: 112 |
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