Universal 680:
- Original
- If a language has dummy auxiliary Negative construction, then there must be another way of negation in this language.
- Standardized
- IF there is a dummy auxiliary negative construction, THEN there is another way of negation.
- Keywords
- negation, dummy auxiliary
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 240 languages of Dahl 1979 sample
- Source
- Dahl 1979
- Counterexamples
English seems unique in that it uses dummy auxiliaries also for question formation and emphatic constructions.