Category: Universals Archive

Universal 932: Original If a language possesses voiceless syllabic stops, then it possesses voiced syllabic stops. Standardized IF there are voiceless syllabic stops, THEN there…

Universal 948: Original In languages with phonemic stress, the number of phonemic contrasts in stressed syllables will be greater than or equal to the number…

Universal 964: VO ⇒ Art N;OV ⇒ N Art Original VO languages exhibit a statistically greater tendency to place articles before the noun than OV…

Universal 980: separative comparative ⇒ SOV Original If a language has a separative comparative, then it is SOV. Standardized IF there is a separative comparative,…

Universal 997: posterior consecutive deranking & VSO ⇒ absolute deranking Original If a language has posterior consecutive deranking and its word order is VSO, then…

Universal 1012: diffuse medial affricates & compact medial fricatives ⇒ compact medial affricates Original The existence of diffuse medial affricates and compact medial fricatives imply…

Universal 1028: OV ⇔ tensedness ⇔ casedness ⇔ AND-construction ⇔ absolute converb Original There are correlations between following parameters:OV word order, Tensedness, Casedness, AND-Construction, Absolute…

Universal 1044: Original Whenever syllable closure is counted as an extra mora, vowel length is always present and likewise counts as two mora(s), but not…

Universal 1060: Original For languages which have agreement both within clauses and within NPs, if NP-constituents agree in Number, clause constituents will almost certainly also…