Author: FP

Universal 1162: indefinite article (plural nouns) ⇒ indefinite article (singular nouns) Original If the indefinite article determines plural nouns, then it is also used for…

Universal 1163: indefinite article ⇒ definite article Original If a language has a grammaticalized indefinite article, it is likely to also have a definite article,…

Universal 1164: Original … vocatives do not undergo definitization in any language investigated. Most vocatives take no article at all or take the definite article.…

Universal 1165: Original Whenever order correlates with definiteness, the definite element tends to be placed at the beginning of the sentence. Standardized Whenever order correlates…

Universal 1166: Original For any particular language, definiteness contrast obligatorily expressed for any noun phrase implies such contrast in the object noun phrase. Standardized IF…

Universal 1167: Original Markers on the verb or adjective are never the sole markers of definiteness, in any given context (except perhaps in Latvian), their…

Universal 1168: Original If a language possesses simple and distributive-key universal quantifiers, and the two are morphologically related, then the distributive-key quantifier is derived from…

Universal 1169: distributive-key universal quantifier ⇒ simple universal quantifier Original If a language possesses a distributive-key universal quantifier, it possesses a simple universal quantifier. Standardized…

Universal 1170: Original If a language possesses simple and distributive-share universal quantifiers, then the distributive-share universal quantifier is derived from the simple universal quantifier by…

Universal 1171: Original If a language uses a morphosyntactic process P to form a distributive-share universal quantifier, it also uses P to form distributive-share numerals,…