Universal 1846: Original Standardized IF there is a voiced dental trill, THEN there is also a voiceless dental stop. Keywords stop, trill, dental, voice Domain…
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Universal 1846: Original Standardized IF there is a voiced dental trill, THEN there is also a voiceless dental stop. Keywords stop, trill, dental, voice Domain…
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Universal 1862: Original The acute/grave opposition of compact nasal consonants implies an identical opposition of compact oral stops. Standardized IF there is a acute/grave opposition…
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Universal 1878: Original Deverbalization Hierarchy:If a verbal form inflects for tense-aspect-modality (TAM) like a predicated verb, then it will take subject and object dependents like…
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Universal 1894: Original No inflectional affixes can belong to the set of properties borrowed fro a language unless at least one derivational affix also belongs…
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Universal 1911: Original If a language has an optative mood, it also has a subjunctive or an imperative mood. Standardized IF there is an optative…
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Universal 1927: Original If nothing else in the language agrees with nouns in terms of class, numeral expressions will. Standardized IF anything other than numerals…
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Universal 1943: Original It appears to be only indicators of the 1st and 2nd person which combine to form new pronouns. (but see Comments) Standardized…
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Universal 1959: Original … languages have special restrictions for the word-initial and word-final positions that are not valid for every syllable onset and coda, respectively.…
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Universal 1975: Original When a language with a full copula begins to lose it, or when a language with a zero copula begins to develop…
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Universal 1991: Original As a “natural” semantic shift alternative (a) [human vs. non-human > human male vs. other] is much less motivated than alternative (b)…