Universal 617: Original Whenever a language has both a more explicit and less explicit way of forming relative clauses, then the more explicit type will…
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Universal 617: Original Whenever a language has both a more explicit and less explicit way of forming relative clauses, then the more explicit type will…
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Universal 633: SA ⇒ word-class distinction between nouns and adjectives is blurred Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, then it has blurred word-class distinction between…
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Universal 649: Original Reflexive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and pronominalized nouns or pronominalized nominal expressions used in reference, usually indicate greater respect or social distance than…
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Universal 665: Original Yes-no question inversion implies a resultant VSO order. In periphrastic constructions the finite auxiliary always occupies the V slot of the inverted…
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Universal 681: Original The main principles for the position of negatives:(a) they tend not to be separated from the verb by the subject or the…
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Universal 697: Original Standardized IF there are more than five vowels, THEN / C / and also either / Â¥ / or / e/ (generally…
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Universal 713: grammatical opposition (Du) ⇒ grammatical opposition (Pl) Original If there is any grammatical opposition in the forms of Dual, then there is the…
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Universal 729: Original When a marked phonation type is restricted in distribution to certain tones, those tones are in the highest or lowest part of…
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Universal 745: Original The Nominal-Switch Universal (part 2):In cases where a nominal Verbal/Nominal-switch is motivated by conditions of Time-Stability, the nominal strategy will encode the…
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Universal 761: Original Syllabic initial position is favoured for glottalic consonants in general. Standardized IF there are glottalic consonants in positions other than syllable-initial, THEN…