Universal 1289: possibility > necessity > impossibility > non-necessity Original Hierarchy of the auxiliarization of modality:possibility > necessity > impossibility > non-necessity Standardized IF non-necessity…
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Universal 1305: postposition ⇒ Mood affixes on V are suffixed Original If a language is postpositional, mood affixes on verb (if any) are suffixed. Standardized…
Universal 1321:
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Universal 1321: Original Every human language has proper names. Standardized Every human language has proper names. Keywords proper name Domain lexicon Type unconditional Status achronic…
Universal 1337:
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Universal 1337: Original The more marked a basic word order is, the stronger the tendency towards having a less marked alternative word order. Hierarchy of…
Universal 1353:
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Universal 1353: Original Whenever there are three or more summands and at least one is a product, parenthesization starts by separating the summand with the…
Universal 1369:
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Universal 1369: Original The smaller the number of classifiers in a language, the more likely they are to be configurational rather than material. Standardized The…
Universal 1385:
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Universal 1385: Original No language with free word order will have a clause final auxiliary. Standardized IF basic word order is free, THEN an auxiliary…
Universal 1401:
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Universal 1401: Original If a language has either of the orderings (S ADV V X) or (S V X ADV), then it will have both…
Universal 1417:
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Universal 1417: Original If there are separate forms for narrative and non-narrative past contexts, the non-narrative forms tend to be more highly marked than the…
Universal 1433: perfect ⇒ plusquamperfect Original The presence of the perfect almost always implies the presence of the plusquamperfect. Standardized IF there is perfect, THEN…