Month: May 2020

Universal 675: Original It very rarely happens that prenominal Relative Clauses regularly retain personal pronoun in the NPrel position. Standardized IF relative clauses are prenominal,…

Universal 674: Original With few exceptions, postnominal relative clauses in VSO languages contain either (a) an initial relative particle or pronoun or (b) a special…

Universal 673: (person & number) in indicative ⇒ (person & number) in imperative Original If there is person-number distinction in indicative forms, the same distinction…

Universal 672: Original See Graphics Standardized see Graphics Keywords order, noun, adjective, attributive, verb, object, topic, comment, preposition, postposition dependent-marking, analytic, synthetic morphosyntax, word accent,…

Universal 671: Original Lexical items that are more stable than other items in one language family tend to be among the more stable items in…

Universal 670: binary choice tags ⇒ sentence final;multiple choice tag ⇒ sentence initial Original Binary choice tags are almost always sentence final, multiple choice tags…

Universal 669: Original Question particles may co-occur with inversion in yes-no questions. Standardized IF yes-no questions are marked by question particles, THEN they may in…

Universal 668: SOV ⇒ SentQ Original Most question particles occur in sentence-initial (or enclitic to the initial constituent) or in sentence-final position. Question particles almost…

Universal 667: SOV ⇒ ¬information-question inversion Original While languages of all basic order types may have information-question-inversion, SOV languages are less likely than others to…

Universal 666: information question inversion ⇒ question words are sentence initial Original If a language has information question inversion, question words are almost always sentence…