Universal #949

Legacy number: 949

 Number  946
 Original  The more a language is fusional, the more phonological rules are needed to serve morphological fusion.
 Standardized  The more a language is fusional, the more phonological rules are needed to serve morphological fusion.
 Keywords  fusion
 Domain  phonology, morphology
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Dressler 1979: 264

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Discussion
Notes
Looks like a tautology, at least if “fusion“ is understood in the sense of Sapir (who is referred to here).Or is the idea that morphological fusion will co-occur with phonological fusion? But what is MORPHOLOGICAL fusion, then?
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Looks like a tautology, at least if "fusion" is understood in the sense of Sapir (who is referred to here). Or is the idea that morphological fusion will co-occur with phonological fusion? But what is MORPHOLOGICAL fusion, then?