Author: FP

Universal 1192: Original If the head of a restrictive relative clause does not function as the subject of the restricting clause then that subject must…

Universal 1193: Original If the head of a restrictive relative clause does function as the subject of the restricting clause then no personal pronoun will…

Universal 1194: inflection (aspect v tense) ⇒ past v perfective gram Original With a few exceptions, if a language has inflectional tense or aspect, it…

Universal 1195: ¬ inflection (aspect v tense) ⇒ anterior &/v completive gram Original With a few exceptions, if a language has no inflectional tense or…

Universal 1196: Adj ⇒ Adj(color) & Adj(dimension) & Adj(age) & Adj(value) Original If a language has a category of adjectives, this class is likely to…

Universal 1197: more analytic ⇒ more regular phraseology Original Other things being equal, the more analytic a language is, the more regular is its phraseological…

Universal 1198: Original Much of the morphology of languages with predominantly verbal affixation does in fact describe aspects of events and states, rather than persons…

Universal 1199: Original Every natural language has syntactic constituents (called noun-phrases) whose semantic function is to express generalized quantifiers over the domain of discourse. Standardized…

Universal 1200: dislocation of non-NPs ⇒ dislocation of NPs Original Dislocated phrase universal:If a language allows phrases to occur in a dislocated position associated with…

Universal 1201: Original Determiner universal:Every natural language contains basic expressions (called determiners) whose semantic function is to assign to common count noun denotations (i.e., sets)…