Author: FP

Universal 1962: Original Within lexical morphemes of the shape C1VC2V, the sonority of C1 tends to be less than that of C2, with C1 tending…

Universal 1963: Original Stem: CV C Keywords phonotactics, sonority, stem, consonant cluster Domain phonology Type implicational hierarchy Status achronic Quality absolute? Basis impressions Source Butskhrikidze…

Universal 1964: Original all languages exhibit the following property: if clusters of n Cs are possible syllable-initially, then clusters of n-1 Cs are also possible…

Universal 1965: Original The Compensatory Principle:The co-occurrence patterns of hetero-organic consonants across a vowel are such that if the first consonant is more sonorous than…

Universal 1966: Original Every language has at least one set of forms or constructions whose primary function (or one of several major functions) is to…

Universal 1967: Original Every language has at least one set of forms or constructions whose primary function (or one of several major functions) is to…

Universal 1968: Original In a given language the grammatical categories of the verb (e.g., person, voice, mood, tense, negation) may be carried to a greater…

Universal 1969: Original There is a tendency for the existential, copulative, and verb-category carrying dummy elements of a language (a) synchronically to interpenetrate in complex…

Universal 1970: Original There are severe limitations on the kinds of synchronic patterns and diachronic restructurings which may occur in existential-copulative-auxiliary systems, and such patterns…

Universal 1971: Original Tenseless or present-tense copulative expressions connecting nouns are more likely to vary diachronically between zero and overt morphemic marking than other copulative…