Month: May 2020

Universal 625: distributive-share quantifier word ⇒ distributive-share numeral word Original If a language has a distributive-share quantifier word, it has a distributive-share numeral word. Standardized…

Universal 624: SA ⇒ verb-initial V verb-final Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, then it has verb-initial or verb-final constituent order. Standardized IF there is…

Universal 623: Original If a language has distributive-share quantifier words, it has non-configurational NPs, and does not distinguish between nouns of low and high countability…

Universal 622: Original Distributive-key quantifier words and their ordinary counterparts are not morphologically related. Standardized Distributive-key quantifier words and their ordinary counterparts are not morphologically…

Universal 621: Original Distributive-key quantifier words are at least as closely bound to their head nouns as their ordinary counterparts. Standardized Distributive-key quantifier words are…

Universal 620: Original If a distributive-key quantifier word and its ordinary counterpart are associated, in a certain construction, with different number morphology, then the distributive-key…

Universal 619: gapping for attributive ⇒ gapping for non-direct object ⇒ gapping for direct object = gapping for subject Original If a given language can…

Universal 618: Original If a language can relativize a subordinate direct object, then it can relativize a main clause direct object. Standardized IF a subordinate…

Universal 617: Original Whenever a language has both a more explicit and less explicit way of forming relative clauses, then the more explicit type will…

Universal 616: NPrel as a pronoun for subject ⇒ NPrel as a pronoun for direct object ⇒ NPrel as a pronoun for non-direct object ⇒…