Universal 1891:
- Original
- No member of a constituent class whose members do not serve as domains of accentuation can be included in the class of properties borrowed from a particular source language unless some members of another constituent class are also so included which do serve as domains of accentuation and which properly include the same memebers of the former class.
- Standardized
- IF there are borrowed bound morphemes, such as clitics, affixes and parts of compound stems, THEN there are borrowed free forms which these bound morphemes are proper parts of.
IF there are borrowed phonetic segments or features, THEN there are borrowed accentuated lexemes which these segments or features are proper parts of.
- Keywords
- language contact, borrowing, accent, affix, clitic
- Domain
- morphology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentions in Moravcsik 1978e
- Source
- Moravcsik 1978e: 110
- Counterexamples
- Possible counterexamples were suggested but not established in Kiparsky 1949 and Weinreich 1966: 31ff. (Moravcsik 1978e: 111)
The principle, in respect to various types of bound morphemes, has been suggested by H. Paul, Bloomfield 1933: 454, and Leslau 1945: 66.