Universal 798: tensedness ⇔ nouny adjectives Original The Tensedness Universals of Adjective Encoding:A. If a language is tensed, it will have nouny adjectives. If a…
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Universal 814:
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Universal 814: Original Long vowels (also diphthongs) and tone occur as a rule only in stressed syllables. Standardized IF a vowel (or diphthong) is long…
Universal 830: right-extraposed RelCl ⇒ embedded v left-extraposed relatives
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Universal 830: right-extraposed RelCl ⇒ embedded v left-extraposed relatives Original If a language has right-extraposed relative clauses, then it also has either embedded or left-extraposed…
Universal 846:
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Universal 846: Original Languages with stop + stop almost always have both stop + fricative and fricative + stop combinations. Standardized In initial clusters, IF…
Universal 862:
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Universal 862: Original Except for voiced nasal followed by homorganic unvoiced obstruent, an unvoiced consonant or sequence of unvoiced consonants in initial clusters immediately preceding…
Universal 878:
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Universal 878: Original Every language with initial clusters contains at least one cluster with an initial consonant in the dental-alveolar region. Standardized IF there are…
Universal 894: dependent-marking ⇒ adjectives similar to nouns Original Dependent-marking languages tend to have an adjective class of type (a), where adjectives are grammatically similar…
Universal 910:
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Universal 910: Original If speech act constructions – constructions which indicate some feature of an illocutionary act – in certain subordinate clauses, then speech-act constructions…
Universal 926:
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Universal 926: Original The source of syllabicity in syllabic consonants is always a vowel, either directly, when a vowel changes into a consonant (consonantalization), or…
Universal 942:
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Universal 942: Original Nasalized vowels always arise from a sequence of vowel and nasal consonant origin. Standardized Nasalized vowels always arise from a sequence of…