Universal 507: person-number (verb) V gender (verb) ⇒ tense-mood (verb)

Universal 507: person-number (verb) V gender (verb) ⇒ tense-mood (verb)

Original

If the verb has categories of person-number or if it has categories of gender, it always has tense-mode categories.

Standardized

IF the verb inflects for person-number or for gender, THEN it also inflects for tense-mood.

Keywords

verb, person, number, gender, tense, mood

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

30 languages of Greenberg 1963 sample

Source

Greenberg 1963: 93, #30

Counterexamples