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 |
Discussion
Notes
See #476 for the definition of “cumulative”, “separatist”, “sensitive”, “insensitive”.
Comment
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".
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