Author: FP

Universal 1732: Original The definite article never carries more gender, number, and/or case inflection in adnominal use than it does in pronominal use. Standardized IF…

Universal 1733: Original No noun phrase constituent carries more gender, number, and/or case inflection in adnominal use than it does in pronominal use. Standardized IF…

Universal 1734: Original The definite article may govern but is never governed by a noun-phrase-internal constituent. Standardized The definite article may govern but is never…

Universal 1735: Original If an article is the sole carrier of gender and/or number and/or case, it will co-occur with definite and generic nouns. Standardized…

Universal 1736: Original If a less peripherally ordered noun phrase constituent marks gender, number, and/or case redundantly, so can all more peripherally ordered constituents. Standardized…

Universal 1737: Original If the adnominal demonstrative or possessive occurs with a noun that is accompanied by the definite article at one point in time…

Universal 1738: Original On the NP analysis pronouns are arguably anomalous in lacking an overt noun head – unless pronouns are taken to be a…

Universal 1739: Original The fact that pronominal heads do not take the definite article is a very widespread and possibly universal phenomenon, explainable to an…

Universal 1740: Original There is no language with endoclitics, i.e., clitics inside words do not exist. Standardized There are no endoclitics, i.e., clitics inside words…

Universal 1741: Original There is more prefixing on verb than on noun. If a language has any prefixes on noun, it will also have prefixes…