Universal 503: discontinuous affixes ⇒ prefixes &, V. suffixes
- Original
- If a language has discontinuous affixes, it always has either prefixing or suffixing or both.
- Standardized
- IF there are discontinuous affixes, THEN there is prefixing and/or suffixing.
- Keywords
- affix-order, prefix, suffix
- Domain
- morphology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample
- Source
- Greenberg 1963: 92, #26
- Counterexamples
