Universal #506

Legacy number: 506

 Number  504
 Original  If a language is exclusively suffixing, it is postpositional; if it is exclusively prefixing, it is prepositional.
 Standardized  IF there are only suffixes, THEN there will be postpositions;
IF there are only prefixes, THEN there will be prepositions.
 Formula  only suffixes ⇒ postposition;
only prefixes ⇒ preposition
 Keywords  prefix, suffix, postposition, preposition
 Domain  morphology, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
 Source  Greenberg 1963: 93, #27

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Discussion
Counterexamples
possibly: Athabaskan languages (A. A. Kibrik, p. c.)