Month: May 2020

Universal 1055: Original If verbs agree in Person, they are even likelier also to agree in Number. Standardized IF verbs agree in person, THEN they…

Universal 1054: Original If verbs agree in Number, they are very likely to agree in Person. Standardized IF verbs agree in number, THEN they are…

Universal 1053: Original If determiners agree within NPs, modifiers are likelier also to agree than not to agree. Standardized IF determiners agree within NPs, modifiers…

Universal 1052: Original If determiners and modifiers agree both with head nouns, head nouns do not agree with attributive nouns, and vice versa. Standardized IF…

Universal 1051: Original If there is agreement within clauses, agreement is likelier to be used than not to be used within NPs. Standardized IF there…

Universal 1050: Original If there is agreement within NPs, there is, almost certainly, also agreement within clauses. Standardized IF there is agreement within NPs, THEN…

Universal 1049: Original We would expect that a system which stresses the initial syllable as the elsewhere case (i.e., if words lack a long vowel,…

Universal 1048: SOV ⇒ ¬preclitics;VSO ⇒ ¬postclitic question markers Original If word order is SOV, then there are no preclitics.If word order is VSO, then…

Universal 1047: Original If there is tonal ascent, then there is also tonal descent. Standardized IF there is tonal ascent, THEN there is also tonal…

Universal 1046: Original The number of tones on a long vowel seems never to be fewer than on a short vowel. Standardized The number of…