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Universal 1948: Original Class IIIa and Class Ib predicates cooccur in a language. Standardized IF non-canonical marking with Class IIIa predicates, THEN also non-canonical marking…

Universal 1681: Original There is a very general principle that if one resolution operates [in determining agreement with conjoined NPs], all must operate if possible.…

Universal 1633: verb-final ⇒ ¬ Wh-movement Original There is a definite negative correlation between Question-word Movement and verb-final ordering. Standardized IF basic order is verb-final,…

Universal 1616: subject pro-drop ⇔ inflectional paradigms of verbs are morphologically uniform Original The Null Subject Parameter:Null subjects are permitted in all and only languages…

Universal 1221: locative ⇔ allative ⇔ ablative Original Systems of local cases prototypically include a locative (‘where’ case), an allative (‘where to’ case), and an…

Universal 1202: Original Monotonicity correspondence universal:There is a simple NP which expresses the monotone decreasing quantifier ~Q if and only if there is a simple…

Universal 1031: Original The climactic poles of the three accentual features tend to correlate with each other. Thus, e.g., where stress is predictable from vowel…

Universal 898: coalescence of the object ⇔ non-referentiality of object & habitual aspect Original The coalescence of the object generally goes hand in hand with…

Universal 896: imperfective aspect ⇔ indefinite, partitive, non-referential object Original There is an affinity between aspect and object individuation, insofar as the imperfective (progressive, frequentative,…

Universal 833: Original Languages with two or more laterals may contrast them either in manner or voice, but not both (e.g. a language will not…