Month: May 2020

Universal 495: VSO ⇒ no Q positioned relative to a particular word in the sentence Original Question particles or affixes, when specified in position by…

Universal 494: Original Every human language has a stock of elements that shift their denotations depending on elementary features of the speech situation. Standardized Every…

Universal 493: QSent ⇒ prepositions;SentQ ⇒ postpositions Original With well more than chance frequency, when question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference…

Universal 492: Original When a yes-no question is differentiated from the corresponding assertion by an intonational pattern, the distinctive intonational features of each of these…

Universal 491: Original If in a language with dominant SOV order there is no alternative basic order, or only OSV as the alternative, then all…

Universal 490: Original All languages with dominant VSO order have SVO as an alternative or as the only alternative order. Standardized IF dominant order is…

Universal 489: SOV ⇒ postposition Original With overwhelmingly greater than chance frequency, languages with normal SOV order are postpositional. Standardized With overwhelmingly greater than chance…

Universal 488: Original In declarative sentences with nominal subject and object, the dominant order is always one in which the subject precedes the object. Standardized…

Universal 487: long affricates ⇒ long stop ⇒ long fricative Original The presence of long affricates implies the presence of long stops. Further, in all…

Universal 486: Original If a language uses a non-zero case marking for a direct object on the animacy/definiteness hierarchies, then it uses a non-zero case…