Universal #477

Legacy number: 477

 Number  475
 Original  As far as Case is concerned, cumulative exponents (and sensitive separatist exponents) appear to limit the number of terms that may potentially realize this inflexional category to no more than ten terms, while this limit may be exceeded with insensitive separatist exponents of Case terms.
(OR Languages with insensitive separatist morphology have large case paradigms).
 Standardized  IF a case system is extra-large (beyond a dozen or so cases), THEN exponents of case are insensitive separatist (rather than sensitive cumulative).
 Formula  large case system ⇒ insensitive separatist morphology
 Keywords  cumulation, sensitivity, case
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Plank 1986
 Source  Plank 1986: 39, mentioned also in Moravcsik 1994a: 39

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Discussion
Notes
See #476 for the definition of “cumulative”, “separatist”, “sensitive”, “insensitive”.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=476"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the definition of "cumulative", "separatist", "sensitive", "insensitive".