Universal 388: agglutinative ⇔ ¬ gender inflection

Universal 388: agglutinative ⇔ ¬ gender inflection

Original

Languages without inflectional gender are agglutinating, and vice versa.

Standardized

IF there is no inflectional gender, THEN morphology is agglutinative, and vice versa.

Keywords

agglutination, gender

Domain

inflection

Type

mutual implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

unspecified

Source

Moravcsik 1994a: 37

Counterexamples

Dravidian languages