Month: May 2020

Universal 955: Original In languages with both dissolvable and non-dissolvable medial clusters, the former will be significantly more frequent than the latter. Standardized IF there…

Universal 954: Original If verbs of material transfer (giving and taking) and/or verbs of commanding exhibit anomalies with respect to the syntagmatic differentiation of objects,…

Universal 953: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects differ in their morphological coding (at least minimally), then they will also differ in their syntactic behaviour…

Universal 952: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects differ in their overt coding of whatever kind (at least minimally), then they will also differ in…

Universal 951: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects are syntagmatically distinguished at all, then they are distinguished in all ditransitive constructions. Standardized IF direct and…

Universal 950: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects are distinguished in their coding, then they also differ in their syntactic behaviour (but not necessarily the…

Universal 949: Original If direct and indirect/non-direct objects can be distinguished paradigmatically, then they can be distinguished syntagmatically as well (but not necessarily the reverse).…

Universal 948: Original In languages with phonemic stress, the number of phonemic contrasts in stressed syllables will be greater than or equal to the number…

Universal 947: Original If either inflectional morphology or derivational morphology is served by prosodic rules of stress shift, then typically either new phonological rules emerge…

Universal 946: Original The more a language is fusional, the more phonological rules are needed to serve morphological fusion. Standardized The more a language is…