Universal #389

Legacy number: 389

 Number  388
 Original  Languages without inflectional gender are agglutinating, and vice versa.
 Standardized  IF there is no inflectional gender, THEN morphology is agglutinative, and vice versa.
 Formula  agglutinative ⇔ ¬ gender inflection
 Keywords  agglutination, gender
 Domain  inflection
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1994a: 37

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Dravidian languages
Notes
1. See similar statements by Meinhof 1936 (#590) and Renault 1987 (#589).2. Cf. also Dressler 1985: 16, Carstairs-McCarthy 1991: 227.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. See similar statements by Meinhof 1936 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=590"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) and Renault 1987 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=589"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">).

2. Cf. also Dressler 1985: 16, Carstairs-McCarthy 1991: 227.