Month: May 2020

Universal 475: large case system ⇒ insensitive separatist morphology Original As far as Case is concerned, cumulative exponents (and sensitive separatist exponents) appear to limit…

Universal 474: Original Correlation between Types of Exponence and the Number of Terms of inflexional categories (TENT):Cumulative and sensitive separatist exponents limit the number of…

Universal 473: accusative/nominative (noun) ⇒ accusative/nominative (1 V 2 V 3 person pronoun) Original If in a language there is an opposition ”accusative/nominative” in the…

Universal 472: ergative/nominative (noun) ⇒ ergative/nominative (3 person &, V Dem) Original If in a language nouns have the opposition “ergative/nominative”, then with a high…

Universal 471: ergative/nominative (3 person &, V Dem) ⇒ ergative/nominative (noun) Original If in a language personal and/or demonstrative pronouns of the 3rd person have…

Universal 470: ergative/nominative (1 V (V.) 2 person pronoun) ⇒ ergative/nominative (noun) Original If in a language there is an opposition “ergative/nominative” in the declension…

Universal 469: Original If a language has long consonants, it has long consonants in intervocalic position. Standardized IF long consonants occur in non-intervocalic position, THEN…

Universal 468: number marker (noun) = number marker (1&2 person verb)) ⇒ number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb)) Original If marking of…

Universal 467: (number marker (noun) = number marker (verb)) ⇒ (number marker (noun) = number marker (3 person verb)) Original If marking for nominal and…

Universal 466: Original There are no differences in the grammatical patterning of subjects of the sentences meaning “a person/thing belongs to a certain group of…