Author: FP

Universal 127: Original No language has syntactic means (dependent marking, head marking, word order) which are exclusively used in ANCs. Standardized IF any kinds of…

Universal 119: Original If NP-internal constituents agree in two categories these will most likely be number and gender or number and person, depending on whether…

Universal 120: Original If NP-internal constituents agree in more than two categories, the maximum being four, those will always include number and gender and very…

Universal 121: Prep ⇒ (N Num ⇒ N Rel) Original If a language is prepositional, then if the numeral follows the noun, the relative clause…

Universal 122: Original If in a language the same verbal meaning is expressible either through a construction where a complement of the verb is in…

Universal 123: Original In some languages objects [sic] — whether objects of transitive or subjects of intransitive sentences — may be alternatively marked by an…

Universal 124: Original IF there are aspirated stops (especially voiceless labial and alveolar), THEN there is /h/. Standardized IF there are aspirated stops (especially voiceless…

Universal 125: Original If a language has both SOV in a full sentence and determining N+determined N in a Noun Phrase, then it has at…

Universal 126: N Num ⇒ N Rel;equivalently: Rel N ⇒ Num N Original If a language has noun before numeral, then it has noun before…

Universal 142: Du (Adj) ⇒ Du (Dem) Original In noun-phrase-internal agreement, if adjectives inflect for the dual, so do demonstratives. Standardized In NP-internal agreement, IF…