Universal #592

Legacy number: 592

 Number  589
 Original  All languages include utterance pairs where inclusion relations between semantic representations are paralleled by corresponding inclusion relations in morpheme structure; but in no language are all meaning inclusion relations so paralleled (e. g. no language has a fully iconic numeral system where all numerals are expressed by the repetition of the morpheme ‘one’).
 Standardized  All languages include utterance pairs where inclusion relations between semantic representations are paralleled by corresponding inclusion relations in morpheme structure; but in no language are all meaning inclusion relations so paralleled (e. g. no language has a fully iconic numeral system where all numerals are expressed by the repetition of the morpheme ‘one’).
 Keywords  morpheme, complexity, iconicity, numeral
 Domain  morphology, syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1980: 27

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Discussion
Notes
Cf. Mel’cuk 1973, Greenberg 1966, 1978.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Cf. Mel'cuk 1973, Greenberg 1966, Greenberg 1978.