Universal 546: Original In languages in which the expression of plurality is facultative in the noun, the singular may be used with numerals designating numbers…
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Universal 546: Original In languages in which the expression of plurality is facultative in the noun, the singular may be used with numerals designating numbers…
Universal 562: Du (¬natural pair noun) ⇒ Du (natural pair noun) Original If there is a dual with nouns other than those denoting natural pairs,…
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Universal 578: Original If stacked targets (such as attributive adjective and a determiner) may differ in agreeing on a referential-semantic or a syntactic basis, the…
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Universal 594: Original If in a language the temporal order of syntactic constituents that describe events symbolizes anything about the actual order in which these…
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Universal 610: Original When the Switch-Reference marker is a suffix the Marking clause precedes theReference clause; when the Switch-Reference marker is a verbal prefix, the…
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Universal 626: Original Sonority Hierarchy: liquids > glides > nasals > fricatives > stops Standardized Sonority Hierarchy: vowels > liquids > glides > nasals >…
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Universal 642: Original In languages in which variation of person in pronominal reference is used to show degrees of respect or social distance, the 3rd…
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Universal 658: Original There is no reduplication pattern where the number of repetitions is freely chosen from the set of all numbers. Standardized There is…
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Universal 674: Original With few exceptions, postnominal relative clauses in VSO languages contain either (a) an initial relative particle or pronoun or (b) a special…
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Universal 690: Original The occurrence of consonant-combinations in initial and final position of words implies their possibility in medial position, between vowels, but not vice…