Universal #509
Legacy number: 509
| Number | 507 |
| Original | If the verb has categories of person-number or if it has categories of gender, it always has tense-mode categories. |
| Standardized | IF the verb inflects for person-number or for gender, THEN it also inflects for tense-mood. |
| Formula | person-number (verb) V gender (verb) ⇒ tense-mood (verb) |
| Keywords | verb, person, number, gender, tense, mood |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | 30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample |
| Source | Greenberg 1963: 93, #30 |
Discussion
Notes
Cf. #267.
Comment
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=267"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">
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