Universal 477: Original If the same progressive constructions are used for present and for non-present tenses, the progressive aspect verb phrase will either be unmarked…
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Universal 477: Original If the same progressive constructions are used for present and for non-present tenses, the progressive aspect verb phrase will either be unmarked…
Universal 493: QSent ⇒ prepositions;SentQ ⇒ postpositions Original With well more than chance frequency, when question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference…
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Universal 509: verb agreement in gender (subject V object) ⇒ > verb agreement in number (subject V object) Original Whenever the verb agrees with a…
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Universal 525: Original Every language has a numeral system of finite scope. Standardized Every language has a numeral system of finite scope. Keywords numeral Domain…
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Universal 541: Original If a link for addition occurs medially, it always goes with the following numeral in a prepositional language and with the preceding…
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Universal 557: Original When languages with and without articles are in contact, it is more common for languages without an article to pick one up…
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Universal 573: obligatory (in)definiteness marking ⇒ ¬ obligatory numeral classifier Original If a language has obligatory marking of (in)definiteness, then it has no obligatory marking…
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Universal 589: Original All languages include utterance pairs where inclusion relations between semantic representations are paralleled by corresponding inclusion relations in morpheme structure; but in…
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Universal 605: Original If a language has a derivational morpheme whose distributional characterization makes reference to objects, it will also make reference to intransitive subjects…
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Universal 621: Original Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts. Standardized Distributive-key quantifier words are…