Universal 586: agglutinative ⇒ ¬ gender inflection

Universal 586: agglutinative ⇒ ¬ gender inflection

Original

If a language is of the agglutinative type, then it cannot have grammatical gender.

Standardized

IF morphology is agglutinative, THEN there is no grammatical gender.

Keywords

agglutination, gender

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical (according to author absolute)

Basis

Latin (Italic, IE), Russian (Slavic, IE), Finnish (Finnic, Uralic), Turkish (Turkic, Altaic)

Source

Renault 1987: 113

Counterexamples

Dravidian languages