Month: May 2020

Universal 405: agglutinative (to an extent) ⇒ inflections used cross-categorially Original If a language is (to an extent) agglutinating, at least some of its inflections…

Universal 404: C [+obst, +cont]h ⇒ C [+obst, -cont]h; oraspirated continuous obstruents ⇒ aspirated non-continuous obstruents Original Aspirated non-continuous obstruents occur more frequently than aspirated…

Universal 403: Original If a construction involves a free and a bound constituent which convey the same meaning and one of them is optional, it…

Universal 402: cumulation (noun) ⇒ cumulation (pronoun) Original If in a language there is any cumulative expression in a nominal paradigm, there will be cumulative…

Universal 401: cumulation & person-number inflection ⇒ person-number is expressed cumulatively Original If in a language any inflectional categories are expressed cumulatively and the language…

Universal 400: (plural marker (1 &/V. 2 person pronoun) = plural marker (noun)) ⇒ the same plural marker (3 person pronoun) Original If a language…

Universal 399: inflectional number(1 &/V. 2 person pronoun ) ⇒ inflectional number (3 person pronoun) Original If a language indicates number in the 1st and/or…

Universal 398: Original If a language has homonymous inflectional affixes that express a single meaning element, then, if the language has cumulative inflection at all,…

Universal 397: Original An affix may condition inwards if in some other context an affix of the same type conditions outwards in the same language.…

Universal 396: Original The more frequent and syntagmatically simple forms show paradigmatically complexity, the less frequent and syntagmatically complex forms show less paradigmatic complexity. Standardized…