Universal #505
Legacy number: 505
| Number | 503 |
| Original | If a language has discontinuous affixes, it always has either prefixing or suffixing or both. |
| Standardized | IF there are discontinuous affixes, THEN there is prefixing and/or suffixing. |
| Formula | discontinuous affixes ⇒ prefixes &, V. suffixes |
| Keywords | affix-order, prefix, suffix |
| Domain | morphology |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample |
| Source | Greenberg 1963: 92, #26 |
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