Universal 210: Original A differentiation of rounded vowels according to degree of aperture cannot arise as long as the same opposition is lacking for unrounded…
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Universal 210: Original A differentiation of rounded vowels according to degree of aperture cannot arise as long as the same opposition is lacking for unrounded…
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Universal 226: Original Languages of the class type have no case paradigm. In rare cases when languages of the active type have an elementary noun…
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Universal 242: inflectional expansion: Pl ⇒ Duinflectional reduction: Du ⇒ Pl Original During inflectional expansion, if there is a plural, there is also a dual.…
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Universal 258: Original In ergative languages the subject is characterized by its autonomous position in the sentence:first of all, subject and predicate are in marginal…
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Universal 274: Original If by means of reduplication a decrease of quantity or degree may be expressed in a language, there are cases in that…
Universal 290: ezâfe ⇒ possessive declension V pronominal enclitics Original If there are ezâfe constructions, then there is possessive declension or there are pronominal enclitics…
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Universal 306: Original In the majority of languages verbal forms of the passive voice morphologically are not more complex than forms of the active voice.…
Universal 322: ergative (nouns) ⇒ non-zero allomorphs Original If nouns have a syntactic form of the ergative, then at least some of its allomorphs are…
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Universal 338: Original If the verb agrees with subject and object and there are confix-forms such as o-V-s-o, then there are o-V-s forms as well.…
Universal 354: (s-V-o) & ¬(o-V-s) ⇒ verb-initial Original In the languages where the verb agrees with subject and object, if there are forms like s-V-o,…