Month: May 2020

Universal 1065: Original No language has a rule which (i) places stress on antepenultimate syllables, but (ii) fails to place a stress on words consisting…

Universal 1064: Original Languages often have mechanisms to remove stress from final position, often putting it in penultimate position; but there is no corresponding tendency…

Universal 1063: Original When stress is phonologically predictable (i.e., demarcative), it mostly falls on initial syllables, somewhat less commonly on final syllables or on penultimate…

Universal 1062: Original In case of polite plural subject, … more verb-like predicates tend to agree with features of the surface subject, while more noun-like…

Universal 1061: Original For languages which have agreement both within clauses and within NPs, if clause-constituents agree in Number, NP constituents are very likely also…

Universal 1060: Original For languages which have agreement both within clauses and within NPs, if NP-constituents agree in Number, clause constituents will almost certainly also…

Universal 1059: Original If NP-internal constituents agree in only a single category, this will not be Definiteness; it will most likely be Number. Standardized Whenever…

Universal 1058: Original If verbs agree in Gender, they are likelier to agree than not to agree in Person. Standardized IF verbs agree in Gender,…

Universal 1057: Original If verbs agree in Person, they are likelier not to agree than to agree in Gender. Standardized IF verbs agree in person,…

Universal 1056: Original If verbs agree in Gender, they are very likely also to agree in Number. Standardized IF verbs agree in gender, THEN they…