Author: FP

Universal 1392: Original Deletion of past tenses in non-initial (or non-final) verbs of conjunctive series implies deletion of future tenses in the same environment. Standardized…

Universal 1393: future participle ⇒ past participle & present participle Original A future participle implies both past and present participles but neither of the two…

Universal 1394: Original All languages have non-reduced adverbial constructions.If a language has reduced adverbials, these are always more restricted in their privileges of occurrence than…

Universal 1395: argument-reduced adverbials ⇒ predicate-reduced adverbials Original If a language has argument-reduced adverbials, it will also have predicate-reduced adverbials. Standardized IF there are argument-reduced…

Universal 1396: locative argument reduced adverbials ⇒ temporal argument-reduced adverbials Original If a language has predicate-reduced adverbials, then at least some of them will have…

Universal 1397: Original No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as case prefixes. Standardized Adverbial case affixes are always suffixes. Keywords adverbial, case, affix,…

Universal 1398: Original No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as argument-internal clitics that are postposed to the constituents that they are bound to.…

Universal 1399: Original All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents.For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the…

Universal 1400: Original If a language has S (O) V ordering but no SOV orderings, then it will have S (O) ADV V orderings, but…

Universal 1401: Original If a language has either of the orderings (S ADV V X) or (S V X ADV), then it will have both…