An inflectional paradigm P in a language L is MORPHOLOGICALLLY UNIFORM if P has either only underived inflectional forms or only derived inflectional forms.E.g.,Latin verb infl is uniform: all person-numbers have some suffix.Chinese is also uniform: no infl exponents for any person-number.English verb infl is NOT uniform: 3rd Sg has -s, rest has nothing.Plank (2003, EUROTYP NP volume) considers this claim too liberal: non-inflected verbs may license the dropping of pronouns of 3rd person, but not normally of 1st and 2nd.
An inflectional paradigm P in a language L is MORPHOLOGICALLLY UNIFORM if P has either only underived inflectional forms or only derived inflectional forms.E.g.,Latin verb infl is uniform: all person-numbers have some suffix.Chinese is also uniform: no infl exponents for any person-number.English verb infl is NOT uniform: 3rd Sg has -s, rest has nothing.Plank (2003, EUROTYP NP volume) considers this claim too liberal: non-inflected verbs may license the dropping of pronouns of 3rd person, but not normally of 1st and 2nd.