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Universal 1595:

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Universal 1595:

Original
If some element is a member of the set AUX*, there is reasonable likehood that it will be bound to some adjacent element.
Standardized
IF an element has auxiliary function, THEN it will be bound.
Keywords
AUX, boundness
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
Luiseño (Uto-Aztecan), Lummi (Salish), Egyptian Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), and Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan)
Source
Steele, Akmajian, Demers, Jelinek, Kitagawa, Oehrle, & Wasow 1981: 143, 155
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Definition of the set AUX* in language-independent terms:1. AUX is a syntactic constituent; 2. AUX contains a specified, i.e. fixed and small, class of elements; 3. These elements occur in a fixed order; 4. AUX must include elements marking tense and/or modality; 5. It may include, as well, elements indicating subject marking, subject agreement, question, evidential, emphasis, aspect, object marking, object agreement, and negation; 6. Insofar as these notional types can be identified across languages, their relative order does not follow from any general principle(s). (Steele et al. 1981:155-156)Presumably “bound” here is meant to subsume “affixed” and “cliticized”.

    1. May 2020

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