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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