Universal #686

Legacy number: 686

 Number  683
 Original  If syntactic Negation, then the following factors are likely:
a. moveability of Negation;
b. prosodic independence (e.g. the Negation morpheme carries a stress of its own);
c. in written language: orthographic separation;
d. the Negation morpheme by itself carries inflectional affixes.
 Standardized  IF negation is syntactic, THEN
a. moveability of Negation;
b. prosodic independence (e.g. the Negation morpheme carries a stress of its own);
c. in written language: orthographic separation;
d. the Negation morpheme by itself carries inflectional affixes.
 Keywords  negation, prosodic phrasing, stress, inflection
 Domain  syntax, 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.