Category: Universals Archive

Universal 1989: Original simplification … in the typologically expected direction …In the process of category-collapsing, we normally expect as well as find the non-human or…

Universal 2005: Original The type of gender resolution system found is constrained by the [gender] assignment system of the language. Languages with strict semantic assignment…

Universal 2021: Original (i) In all languages, people can describe cognitively based feelings via observable bodily “symptoms” (that is, via some bodily events regarded as…

Universal 5: SOV & N Gen ⇒ N Adj Original If a language has dominant SOV order and the genitive follows the governing noun, then…

Universal 21: SA with non-possessor case ⇒ SA with possessor case Original In almost all languages if the internal case involved in Suffixaufnahme is a…

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 54: Original If in the NP-internal distribution of case a lexically assigned case competes with a structurally or otherwise assigned case, lexical case takes…

Universal 70: Prep & ¬SVO ⇒ (N A ⇒ N G) Original If a language has prepositions and any verb position other than SVO, then…

Universal 86: Original If in a language the verb agrees with anything other than subjects and direct objects, it agrees with some or all indirect…

Universal 102: Postp ⇒ (Poss N ⇒ G N) Original If a language has Postp word order, then if the possessive adjective precedes the noun,…