Month: May 2020

Universal 755: Original Preferences regarding point of articulation for glottalic obstruents are as follows: injectives tend to have front articulation, ejectives back articulation. Standardized Preferences…

Universal 754: Original For injectives, …, the bilabial is clearly the favoured point of articulation. Standardized IF an obstruent is injective, THEN it will most…

Universal 753: Original A contrast between five basic vowel qualities is the norm for a human language, and in general the most common systems are…

Universal 752: glottalic obstruents & sonants ⇒ ejective obstruent is unvoiced Original IF a language has glottalic obstruents and sonants, THEN the ejective obstruent is…

Universal 751: Original The Multiple-Switch Universal:In a language with tense-induced M-switching, category switching (if any) is restricted to Present Tense. Standardized IF there is tense-induced…

Universal 750: Original The Universal of Multiple N/L-Switching:In cases of conditioned multiple N/L-switching, the nominal strategy is limited to the Present Tense. Standardized IF there…

Universal 749: Original The Universal of Locational Merging:A language may have locational merging only if it allows locational encoding of predicative adjectives. Standardized IF locational…

Universal 748: nominal encoding of predicate adjective ⇒ nominal merging Original The Universal of Nominal Merging*:A language may have nominal merging only if it allows…

Universal 747: Aspect ⇒ perfective/imperfective Original The Universal of Tense-Aspect Organization:If a language encodes an aspectual opposition in its verbal system, this opposition will hold…

Universal 746: Tense ⇒ Past/Non-Past Original The Universal of Tense-Aspect Organization:If a language encodes a tense opposition in its verbal system, this opposition will hold…