Universal #1974

Legacy number: 1974

 Number  1968
 Original  In a given language the grammatical categories of the verb (e.g., person, voice, mood, tense, negation) may be carried to a greater or lesser extent by auxiliary verbs or particles which co-occur with the verb. In an extreme case these categories may be carried by a dummy morph which has no apparent lexical meaning at all.
 Standardized  In a given language the grammatical categories of the verb (e.g., person, voice, mood, tense, negation) may be carried to a greater or lesser extent by auxiliary verbs or particles which co-occur with the verb. In an extreme case these categories may be carried by a dummy morph which has no apparent lexical meaning at all.
 Keywords  verb, inflection, auxiliary
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  "widely held assumption"
 Source  Ferguson 1972: 79

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Discussion
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Is this to read restrictively: "... may only be carried by auxiliaries or particles, unless they are carried by the verb itself"?
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Is this to read restrictively: "... may only be carried by auxiliaries or particles, unless they are carried by the verb itself"?