Month: May 2020

Universal 965: (IndefArt ≠ ‘One’) & VO ⇒ IndefArt N(IndefArt ≠ ‘One’) & OV ⇒ N IndefArt Original Languages where indefinite articles are quite distinct…

Universal 964: VO ⇒ Art N;OV ⇒ N Art Original VO languages exhibit a statistically greater tendency to place articles before the noun than OV…

Universal 963: articles co-occur with nouns accompanied by adnominal possessors ⇒ demonstratives co-occur with nouns accompanied by adnominal possessors Original If articles co-occur with possessive…

Universal 962: (DefArt ≠ Dem) & VO ⇒ DefArt N;(DefArt ≠ Dem) & OV ⇒ N DefArt Original The more distinct the definite article form…

Universal 961: Original … definite articles are often synchronically identical with or clearly related to demonstratives which are also in the overwhelming majority of cases…

Universal 960: Original If the numeral ‘one’ turns into anything, it becomes an indefinite article (and/or pronoun), the reverse is not necessarily true. Standardized Apart…

Universal 959: vowel harmony ⇒ ¬ vowel reduction;vowel reduction ⇒ ¬ vowel harmony Original Vowel harmony and vowel reduction typically do not co-occur. Standardized IF…

Universal 958: future tense (resultative) ⇒ past tense (resultative) ⇒ present tense (resultative) Original The probability of tense forms in the resultative is determined by…

Universal 957: Original For languages with phonemic stress, the presence of n unstressed syllables flanking a stressed syllable implies the presence of n -1 unstressed…

Universal 956: Original The presence of C1C2 makes -C2C1 as likely or more likely than -C1C2 Standardized The presence of C1C2– makes -C2C1 as likely…