Universal 266:
- Original
- If a language has Person and Number inflection, then it also has Tense, Aspect and Mood inflection.
- Standardized
- IF there is Person and Number inflection, THEN there is Tense, Aspect, and Mood inflection.
- Keywords
- verb, inflection, person, number, tense, aspect, mood
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 50 languages of Bybee 1985b sample; see Bybee 1985b: 215-6
- Source
- Bybee 1985b: 46
- Counterexamples
Cf. #509.