Universal #1962
Legacy number: 1962
| Number | 1956 |
| Original | In isolierenden Sprachen werden alle Wurzeln gleichwertig behandelt. Man kann es der Wurzel nicht einmal ansehen, ob sie nominalen oder verbalen Charakter hat, ja, viele Wurzeln können für beides verwendet werden. |
| Standardized | IF there is isolation (i.e., no inflectional morphology), THEN word classes of noun and verb are only weakly differentiated, in the sense of (many) roots equally serving as nouns and verbs. |
| Keywords | isolation, word classes, noun, verb |
| Domain | syntax, inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | primarily Meinhof's "Semiten-" and "Hamitensprachen" in comparison with other lgs of Africa and of Europe |
| Source | Meinhof 1936: 57 |
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