Month: May 2020

Universal 905: Original Allomorphy cannot be conditioned across (grammatical) word boundaries. Standardized Allomorphy cannot be conditioned across (grammatical) word boundaries. Keywords allomorphy Domain morphology Type…

Universal 904: Original If noun phrases take case marking when occurring in core relations governed by verbs and other lexical expressions, they will also do…

Universal 903: omnisyllabic tone ⇒ purely emotional/affective particles Original … omnisyllabic tone languages typically have a repertoire of particles whose only job is to convey…

Universal 902: omnisyllabic tone ⇒ monosyllabic morphemes Original There appears to be a necessary connection between omnisyllabic tone and monosyllabic morphemes. Standardized IF tone is…

Universal 901: Original The more firmly individuated (definite, human, etc.) the agent and the object and/or the more complete (semantically pregnant, perfective, real. etc.) the…

Universal 900: antipassive ⇔ imperfective aspect & low-level object individuation Original The antipassive is correlative with the imperfective aspect and low-level object individuation. Whenever antipassive…

Universal 899: indirect construction ⇔ progressive aspect & partial nature of the object;direct construction ⇔ non-progressive aspect & totally involved object Original Whenever indirect constructions…

Universal 898: coalescence of the object ⇔ non-referentiality of object & habitual aspect Original The coalescence of the object generally goes hand in hand with…

Universal 897: individuated/thematic object ⇔ objective conjugation;non-individuated/non-thematic object ⇔ subjective conjugation Original Whenever there is an opposition between a subjective and an objective conjugation, the…

Universal 896: imperfective aspect ⇔ indefinite, partitive, non-referential object Original There is an affinity between aspect and object individuation, insofar as the imperfective (progressive, frequentative,…