1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 583: Posted in Universals Archive Universal 583: Original Semantically simple morphemes are never systematically more complex in phonetic form than semantically more complex ones. Standardized IF morphemes are semantically less complex than others, THEN they will not systematically be more complex in phonetic form than these. Keywords morpheme, complexity, semantics, iconicity Domain phonology, morphology Type no genuine implication; rather: provided that Status achronic Quality absolute Basis unspecified Source C. Lehmann 1974, cited in Moravcsik 1980: 26, Moravcsik 1994a: 41 Counterexamples Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP implicationally:IF a morpheme is of semantic complexity n, THEN it will not be more complex in phonetic form than morphemes of semantic complexity n+1. 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP implicationally:IF a morpheme is of semantic complexity n, THEN it will not be more complex in phonetic form than morphemes of semantic complexity n+1. 1. May 2020
implicationally:IF a morpheme is of semantic complexity n, THEN it will not be more complex in phonetic form than morphemes of semantic complexity n+1.