Month: May 2020

Universal 1115: Original An optional rule such as scrambling is allowed only if its application creates a structure which is consistent with the parameter-setting (e.g.,…

Universal 1114: VO ⇒ CompS; Original VO languages are exceptionlessly Comp-initial. OV languages exemplify both final complementizers and initial complementizers. Standardized IF basic word order…

Universal 1113: special marking in yes-no questions ⇔ no syntactic wh-movement Original Wh-in-situ languages have special markings in yes-no questions, and languages with special markings…

Universal 1112: ¬ subject raising ⇒ ¬ full passive Original Subject Raising Constraint:No argument of an object complement sentence can be raised into subject position.Any…

Universal 1111: ¬ inflectional morphology ⇒ fixed word order of nominal arguments; Original Lack of inflectional morphology implies fixed word order of direct nominal arguments.…

Universal 1110: preverbs (perfective aspect) ⇒ preverbs (future tense) Original If in a language perfective aspect is expressed by help of preverbs then it is…

Universal 1109: person marking (predicate nouns) ⇒ person marking (predicate verbs) Original There is no language in which person marking applies to predicate nouns and…

Universal 1108: comitative possessive ⇒ predominant balancing of simultaneous sequences Original If a language has a Comitative Possessive, that language will have predominant (or sometimes…

Universal 1107: topic possessive ⇒ backgrounding of simultaneous sequences Original If a language has a Topic Possessive, that language will have backgrounding of simultaneous sequences.…

Universal 1106: locative possessive ⇒ simultaneous deranking Original If a language has a Locative Possessive, that language will have deranking of simultaneous sequences. Standardized IF…