Universal 1911:
- Original
- If a language has an optative mood, it also has a subjunctive or an imperative mood.
- Standardized
- IF there is an optative mood, THEN there is subjunctive or an imperative mood
- Keywords
- mood, optative, subjunctive, imperative
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- ?
- Source
- ? cited in Kiefer 1999: 227
- Counterexamples
