Author: FP

Universal 42: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme at one time and at some later point it does not, one possible successor construction is the…

Universal 1: Adp NP ⇒ N G Original In languages with prepositions the genitive almost always follows the governing noun. Standardized IF adpositions precede their…

Universal 30: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it also has NP-internal attributive constituents outside this construction. Standardized IF there is Suffixaufnahme, THEN there will…

Universal 31: Suffixaufnahme with nominals ⇒ other attributive constructions Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it also has other NP-internal attributive constituents showing agreement in…

Universal 36: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it will also have at least one of the following NP-internal case marking patterns: complete marking, free…

Universal 37: Original If Suffixaufnahme is historically preceded by a different construction, one possibility for that construction is to involve a pronoun-like constituent. This constituent…

Universal 38: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time it has Suffixaufnahme…

Universal 39: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme with both preposed and postposed attributives at one time and at some earlier time it had it…

Universal 40: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two…

Universal 41: Original If a nominal has two or more affixes at one time and at an earlier time one of those was not present,…