Month: May 2020

Universal 895: accusative structure ⇔ future/present/imperfective tense;ergative structure ⇔ perfect/past/perfective tense Original Provided there is actancy variation in terms of tense, accusative constructions will always…

Universal 894: dependent-marking ⇒ adjectives similar to nouns Original Dependent-marking languages tend to have an adjective class of type (a), where adjectives are grammatically similar…

Universal 893: head-marking ⇒ adjectives similar to verbs Original Head-marking languages tend to have an adjective class of type (b), where adjectives are grammatically similar…

Universal 892: Original See Graphics Standardized See Graphics for Moderate rhythmic holism Keywords syllable structure, stress, vowel harmony, vowel system Domain inflection, prosodic phonology Type…

Universal 891: Original Iambic vs. Trochaic languagesSee Graphics Standardized see Graphics for Iambic vs. Trochaic languages Keywords stress, syllable, unit, order, object, verb, subject, adverb,…

Universal 890: Original Iambic vs. Troachaic phrase accent and its many correlatesSee Graphics Standardized See Graphics for Iambic vs. Troachaic phrase accent and its many…

Universal 889: OV ⇒ suffixes;VO ⇒ prefixes Original OV languages tend to have suffixes and VO languages prefixes. Standardized IF the word order is OV,…

Universal 888: O V ⇒ moraic-counting;V O ⇒ syllable counting Original OV languages are often mora-counting, and VO languages are syllable-counting. Standardized IF basic order…

Universal 887: agglutinative ⇒ pitch accent;flexive ⇒ stress accent Original If a language is agglutinative, then accent is primarily pitch.If a language is flexive, then…

Universal 886: back unrounded vowel ⇒ front unrounded vowel Original A back unrounded vowel implies a front unrounded vowel at the same tongue height. Standardized…