Universal #1999

Legacy number: 1999

 Number  1993
 Original  Free forms are more easily susceptible to morphological replacement through analogical levelling or otherwise than bound forms.
 Standardized  IF a bound form is morphologically replaced through analogical levelling or otherwise, THEN the corresponding free form is also replaced, or has already been replaced.
 Keywords  free form, bound form, analogy, levelling
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  Dravidian, impressionistic
 Source  Krishnamurti 1968/2001: 83

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Discussion
Notes
e.g., in Dravidian, nominatives are free, oblique stems occur bound in morphological or syntactic constructions.Standardized is probably not exactly what K had in mind.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
e.g., in Dravidian, nominatives are free, oblique stems occur bound in morphological or syntactic constructions. Standardized is probably not exactly what K had in mind.