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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