Month: May 2020

Universal 465: Original With more than chance frequency, in sentences meaning ‘a person/thing belongs to a certain group of persons/things’ (like ‘Socrates is Greek’), the…

Universal 464: Original With more than chance frequency, an NP with a semantic role of peregrinator (the one who moves) is considered a subject of…

Universal 463: Original If a language has an opposition of intransitive verbs of action and state, then all (or almost all), verbs meaning “to move…

Universal 462: Original If there is an opposition of active and passive voice, then the NP which has the semantic role of patient of the…

Universal 461: Original For verbs with the general meaning to “destroy” or to “create” (see ):If there is no voice opposition, the NP which has…

Universal 460: Original In a language, all (or almost all) verbs with the general meaning ‘to create’ or ‘to destroy’ are transitive verbs according to…

Universal 459: HAVE-construction: possessor is marked for subject ⇒ possessee is comitative marked Original The subject-marked possessor of a HAVE-construction implies a comitative-marked possessee. Standardized…

Universal 458: geminates after long vowels ⇒ geminates after short vowels Original The presence of long consonants after long vowels implies the presence of long…

Universal 457: h V [ +pal ] ⇒ h V [ +vel ] ; Original /h/ is more likely to occur preceding a velar vowel…

Universal 456: /h/ occurs in syllable-initial position ⇒ /h/ occurs in relative initial position ⇒/h/ occurs in absolute initial position; or $hV ⇒ #hV=>##hV Original…