Category: Universals Archive

Universal 248: part of speech Adverb ⇒ part of speech Adjective ⇒ part of speech Noun ⇒ part of speech Verb Original Parts of speech…

Universal 264: Original On the lexical level frequentalia of active languages are as follows: the inactive noun class is often subdivided into groups according to…

Universal 280: Original In all languages, the nouns which are marked with a special possessive marker do not occur with possessive pronouns. Standardized IF nouns…

Universal 296: Original In all languages: if the noun has no case, and the verb has no such categories which could point out the relation…

Universal 312: Original If among syntactic functions of a form there is the subject of intransitive verb of action, then the subject of the intransitive…

Universal 328: Original If a verb agrees with a subject in prefix, then verbs have affixes or clitics which agree with the direct object. Standardized…

Universal 344: VS (transitive verb) ⇒ VS (intransitive verb) Original If the order VS is dominant with transitive verbs, then it will be dominant with…

Universal 360: free word order ⇒ words are longer than one syllable;SVO ⇒ words tend to be monosyllabic Original Words tend to be longer than…

Universal 376: topic markers ⇒ SOV Original If a language has topic markers, then these will always be postpositional and basic word order in the…

Universal 392: Original If a language has the category of group plural at all, it will use it only with singular definite nouns, such as…