Universal #589
Legacy number: 589
| Number | 586 |
| Original | If a language is of the agglutinative type, then it cannot have grammatical gender. |
| Standardized | IF morphology is agglutinative, THEN there is no grammatical gender. |
| Formula | agglutinative ⇒ ¬ gender inflection |
| Keywords | agglutination, gender |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical (according to author absolute) |
| Basis | Latin (Italic, IE), Russian (Slavic, IE), Finnish (Finnic, Uralic), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic) |
| Source | Renault 1987: 113 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Dravidian languages
Notes
For similar statements see Moravcsik 1994 (#389) and Meinhof 1936 (#590).
Comment
For similar statements see Moravcsik 1994 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=389"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) and Meinhof 1936 (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=590"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">).
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