Universal #404

Legacy number: 404

 Number  403
 Original  If a construction involves a free and a bound constituent which convey the same meaning and one of them is optional, it is always the free form that is optional and never the bound one.
 Standardized  If a construction involves a free and a bound constituent which convey the same meaning and one of them is optional, it is always the free form that is optional and never the bound one.
 Keywords  optionality
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
 Source  Moravcsik 1994a: 45

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