Author: FP

Universal 1592: internal relative clause ⇒ OV ⇒ left-branching NP structure Original The restriction of internally headed relative clauses to OV languages implies that these…

Universal 1593: internal relative clause ⇒ null anaphora Original Internally headed relative clauses occur only in languages manifesting null anaphora (that is, the use of…

Universal 1594: body part /body parts > artefacts Original There will be no language in which the linguistic distance between possessor and possessum is greater…

Universal 1595: Original If some element is a member of the set AUX*, there is reasonable likehood that it will be bound to some adjacent…

Universal 1596: Original Instantiations of AUX* which occur sentence-finally (in surface-order) are limited to languages such as Japanese which are commonly termed ‘rigid verb-final’. Standardized…

Universal 1597: headless relative clause ⇒ verb-final Original Languages with headless relative clauses seem always to be verb-final, often strictly so. Standardized IF there are…

Universal 1598: headless relative clause ⇒ productive nominalization Original Languages with headless relative clauses tend to have powerful and productive patterns of nominalization which are…

Universal 1599: Original Every language has N’s and NPs of the type e → t (common nouns as predicates). Standardized Every language has N’s and…

Universal 1600: Original If a language has DPs at all, it has DPs of type e. If it has no DPs distinct from NPs, it…

Universal 1601: Vowels > Semivowels > Liquids > Fricatives > Obstruent Stops Original Nasal harmony hierarchy: Vowels > Semivowels > Liquids > Fricatives > Obstruent…