Author: FP

Universal 1642: subordinating serial verb structures ⇒ SVO Original Nearly all of the examples of subordinating serial verb structures (V+V) are found in SVO languages.…

Universal 1643: VSO ⇒ ¬ subordinating serial verb phrase structures Original VSO languages with subordinating serial verb phrase constructions are not attested. Standardized IF basic…

Universal 1644: SOV ⇒ ¬ verb phrase serialization Original There is a strong tendency for SOV languages to display verb concatenation rather than verb phrase…

Universal 1645: head-marking anywhere ⇒ head-marking at the clause level;dependent-marking at the clause level ⇒ > dependent-marking at the phrase level Original If a language…

Universal 1646: dependent-marked clause ⇒ dependent-marked relativization;head-marked relativization ⇒ head-marked clause Original For dependent-marking patterns, clause marking type implies relativization type; while for the head-marking…

Universal 1647: Original Clause-affecting relativization inherently favours dependent-marking and disfavours head-marking. Standardized IF clause-affecting relativization occurs, THEN it will be of dependent-marking type. Keywords head-marking,…

Universal 1648: Original The great majority of pronominalization strategies, regardless of language type, favour dependent-marking pattern. Standardized IF relative clause formation involves pronominalization, THEN it…

Universal 1649: clause-final position > clause-initial position > clause-internal position Original Sentential NP Position Hierarchy:clause-final position > clause-initial position > clause-internal position. Standardized FINAL-OVER-INITIAL-POSITION HYPOTHESIS:…

Universal 1650: Original If L is a rigid verb-final language in its basic word order, the rhematic focus of a sentence of L is most…

Universal 1651: Original If in a language finite and non-finite (attributive and/or argument) functions of a form appear to be equally marked or equally unmarked,…