Universal 394:
- Original
- If a language has cross-referential inflection, it also has some self-referencing expression of the same categories.
- Standardized
- IF there is cross-referential inflection, THEN there will be some self-referencing expression of the same categories (i.e., personal pronouns).
- Keywords
- cross-reference, pronoun
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)
- Source
- Moravcsik 1994a: 40
- Counterexamples
If verb inflection cross-references person and number, some nouns and pronouns of the language should wear their own person and number on their sleeves.If this generalization turns to be true, then the occurrence of number inflection, and, indeed, the very existence of personal pronouns is rendered predictable in Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic). (Moravcsik 1994: 40)