Month: May 2020

Universal 1175: ‘north’ &/v ‘south’ ⇒ ‘east’ &/v ‘west’ Original Languages having terms for ‘north’ and/or ‘south’ typically have terms for ‘east’ and/or ‘west’ but…

Universal 1174: Original If in a given language a term for a cardinal direction is introduced, then the sun provides the most likely model to…

Universal 1173: BACK > FRONT > UP, IN > DOWN Original BACK > FRONT > UP, IN > DOWN. If any one of the five…

Universal 1172: distributive-share universal quantifier ⇒ simple universal quantifier Original If a language possesses a distributive-share universal quantifier, it possesses a simple universal quantifier. Standardized…

Universal 1171: Original If a language uses a morphosyntactic process P to form a distributive-share universal quantifier, it also uses P to form distributive-share numerals,…

Universal 1170: Original If a language possesses simple and distributive-share universal quantifiers, then the distributive-share universal quantifier is derived from the simple universal quantifier by…

Universal 1169: distributive-key universal quantifier ⇒ simple universal quantifier Original If a language possesses a distributive-key universal quantifier, it possesses a simple universal quantifier. Standardized…

Universal 1168: Original If a language possesses simple and distributive-key universal quantifiers, and the two are morphologically related, then the distributive-key quantifier is derived from…

Universal 1167: Original Markers on the verb or adjective are never the sole markers of definiteness, in any given context (except perhaps in Latvian), their…

Universal 1166: Original For any particular language, definiteness contrast obligatorily expressed for any noun phrase implies such contrast in the object noun phrase. Standardized IF…