Universal 1893:
- Original
- A lexical item whose meaning is verbal can never be included in the set of borrowed properties.
- Standardized
- A lexical item whose meaning is verbal can never be included in the set of borrowed properties.
- Keywords
- language contact, borrowing, word class, verb
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentions in Moravcsik 1978e
- Source
- Moravcsik 1978e: 111
- Counterexamples
1. For exemplification and general discussion see Moravcsik 1975.2. Doesn’t #1897 permit the borrowing of verbs, on condition that nouns have already been borrowed?