Universal #369

Legacy number: 369

 Number  368
 Original  Typically, agglutinative languages, where stems and affixes are bound together more loosely than in flective and introflective languages, use vowel harmony for signaling which morphs are part of the same word forms.
 Standardized  IF there is vowel harmony, THEN morphology tends to be agglutinative.
 Formula  vowel harmony ⇒ agglutinative morphology
 Keywords  agglutination, vowel harmony
 Domain  phonology, morphology
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Dressler 1985, adapted from Skalicka: Plank 1996, Plank 1998

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Discussion
Notes
1. Implication presumably intended as mutual: "mutually conducive traits".2. Cf. # 713.3. For a tabular summary of Skalicka's typological "constructs" see Plank 1998: 204-205.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Implication presumably intended as mutual: "mutually conducive traits".
2. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=713"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">
3. For a tabular summary of Skalicka's typological "constructs" see Plank 1998: 204-205.