Month: May 2020

Universal 1155: Original For any language, an obligatorily definite identical noun phrase in the preposed main sentences of a relative construction implies the same in…

Universal 1154: Original Occurrence of a resumptive pronoun in the relative clause in cases where the identical element is subject or object of the clause…

Universal 1153: Rel N ⇒ N Rel Original For any language, preposed relative clause implies postposed relative clause. Standardized IF there are preposed relative clauses,…

Universal 1152: numerability ⇒ definitizability ⇒ pronominalizability Original For any given noun phrase, numerability implies definitizability, and definitizability implies pronominalizability. Standardized For any given noun…

Universal 1151: VO ⇒ result predicates are V-adjacent or at the end of the VP;OV ⇒ V-adjacent result predicates Original In VO languages, result predicates…

Universal 1150: distributive-share word ⇒ distributive-share numeral word Original If a language has a distributive-share word, it has a distributive-share numeral word. Standardized IF there…

Universal 1149: sentential objects can be passivized ⇒ lexical NP objects can be passivized Original If a language can passivize transitive verb phrases taking sentential…

Universal 1148: Original If a language presents basic passives then it always passivizes ‘give’, ‘show’, etc. in such a way that the derived subject is…

Universal 1147: Original If a language has two or more basic passives they are likely to differ semantically with respect to the aspect ranges they…

Universal 1146: imperfective passive ⇒ perfective passive Original If a language has any passives it has ones which can be used to cover the perfective…