Universal 89: Original Markers of agreement with direct objects are always formally distinct from markers of agreement with subjects, indirect objects, and adverbial objects. If…
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Universal 89: Original Markers of agreement with direct objects are always formally distinct from markers of agreement with subjects, indirect objects, and adverbial objects. If…
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Universal 105: Original Adjectives tend to lose class agreement before number agreement. Standardized IF adjectives are losing number agreement, THEN they do not, or no…
Universal 121: Prep ⇒ (N Num ⇒ N Rel) Original If a language is prepositional, then if the numeral follows the noun, the relative clause…
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Universal 137: Original In no language will the morphological bulk of a direct case affix exceed that of the oblique case affixes, as a general…
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Universal 153: Original If, as a rule, nouns share inflectional properties with adjectives, they also share them with determiners. Standardized IF nouns share inflectional properties…
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Universal 169: Original If an adposition and a case affix are involved in a government relation, it is always the adposition that governs the affix…
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Universal 185: Original If there are analogical changes in the inflectional paradigms of place names, non-local cases (including the nominative) are generally reformed after local…
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Universal 201: Original No set of case marking elements are both independent morphemes and inseparable from the head noun. Standardized IF a relational marker (case,…
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Universal 217: Original This hierarchy expresses the semantic naturalness for a lexically specified noun phrase to function as agent of a true transitive verb and…
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Universal 233: Original Governors either follow or they precede their governees in all of the following constructions alike: (a) subject, object, and verb, (b) nominal…