Universal #685

Legacy number: 685

 Number  682
 Original  If morphological Negation, then following factors are likely:
a. portmanteau realization of Neg;
b. prosodic unity of Neg and verb (viz. if they 'share' one word stress);
c. placement of Negation close to the root of the verb (i.e. between the root and other inflectional morphemes);
d. morphophonemic alternation in the Negation morpheme.
 Standardized  IF negation is morphological, THEN
a. portmanteau realization of Neg;
b. prosodic unity of Neg and verb (viz. if they "share" one word stress);
c. placement of Neg close to the root of the verb (i.e. between the root and other inflectional morphemes);
d. morphophonemic alternation in the Negation morpheme.
 Keywords  negation, prosodic phrasing, stress, portmanteau, morpheme, order, alternation
 Domain  morphology, prosodic phonology
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  240 languages of Dahl 1979 sample
 Source  Dahl 1979

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Discussion
Notes
Some of these truths are tautologies.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Some of these truths are tautologies.