Universal 401: cumulation & person-number inflection ⇒ person-number is expressed cumulatively

Universal 401: cumulation & person-number inflection ⇒ person-number is expressed cumulatively

Original

If in a language any inflectional categories are expressed cumulatively and the language does have person-number inflection, person-number will be among the cumulatively expressed distinctions.

Standardized

IF any inflectional categories are expressed cumulatively and there is person-number inflection, THEN person-number will be among the cumulatively expressed distinctions.

Keywords

cumulation, person, number

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic)

Source

Moravcsik 1994a: 45

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