Universal #399

Legacy number: 399

 Number  398
 Original  If a language has homonymous inflectional affixes that express a single meaning element, then, if the language has cumulative inflection at all, some of those will also be homonymous.
 Standardized  When there are homonymous inflectional affixes that express a single meaning element, IF there is cumulative inflection at all, THEN some of those will also be homonymous.
 Keywords  homonymy, affix, cumulation
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
 Source  Moravcsik 1994a: 43

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