Universal #402

Legacy number: 402

 Number  401
 Original  If in a language any inflectional categories are expressed cumulatively and the language does have person-number inflection, person-number will be among the cumulatively expressed distinctions.
 Standardized  IF any inflectional categories are expressed cumulatively and there is person-number inflection, THEN person-number will be among the cumulatively expressed distinctions.
 Formula  cumulation & person-number inflection ⇒ person-number is expressed cumulatively
 Keywords  cumulation, person, number
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
 Source  Moravcsik 1994a: 45

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easy to redo implicationally
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
easy to redo implicationally