Month: May 2020

Universal 1135: Original If the dual extends to all number-inflecting personal pronouns and nouns, its conception will be that of a duo-paucal rather than of…

Universal 1134: Original If a dual, or any other number, is differentiated for a particular person of non-pronominal agreement forms, there will be a dual,…

Universal 1133: Original If only two persons differentiate a dual, the 1st is much likelier to be one of them than the 3rd. Standardized IF…

Universal 1132: Original If only one person differentiates a dual, it will very likely be the 1st rather than the 2nd or 3rd. Standardized IF…

Universal 1131: Duo-Paucal ⇒ Ambal Original If a language has the conception of an Duo-Paucal, it will have the conception of an Ambal. Standardized IF…

Universal 1130: Original If a 3rd person pronoun can be incorporated when a corresponding absolute noun is present, then it can also be incorporated when…

Universal 1129: Original If there is incorporation, then the syntactic relations between the complex of incorporated and incorporator and its absolute complements are of an…

Universal 1128: incorporation (subjects and objects) ⇒ ¬ case-marking v ergative case-marking Original If subjects and objects can be incorporated into verbs, then they are…

Universal 1127: Original When nouns and pronouns can be incorporated, they have a special incorporated form (uninflected in the case of nouns) as distinct from…

Universal 1126: incorporation (noun) ⇒ incorporation (pronoun) Original If nouns can be incorporated, then pronouns can also be incorporated. Standardized IF nouns can be incorporated,…