Month: May 2020

Universal 365: Original If the verb agrees with the subject and object and there is at least one o-V form, then the dominant order is…

Universal 364: agglutinative ⇒ long inflectional affixes;flexive ⇒ short inflectional affixes Original Inflectional affixes tend to be longer in agglutinative languages than in flective languages.…

Universal 363: flexive V introflexive ⇒ 2-3 syllable long words; agglutinative V incorporating ⇒ longer than 2-3-syllable words; isolating ⇒ shorter than 2-3 syllable words.…

Universal 362: Original (a)The utterance of the consonants with strong pressure of breath from the chest (as in aspirates, affricates, or in guttural consonants) corresponds…

Universal 361: Original The extent of “material“ articulation, pertaining in particular to (a) the elaboration of sound systems, (b) the complexity of syllable structures, (c)…

Universal 360: free word order ⇒ words are longer than one syllable;SVO ⇒ words tend to be monosyllabic Original Words tend to be longer than…

Universal 359: Original If in a language an incorporated direct object follows the verb stem, then the autonomous subject follows the predicate. Standardized IF an…

Universal 358: Original If in a language an incorporated nominal direct object precedes the verb stem, then the autonomous subject precedes the predicate. Standardized IF…

Universal 357: Original If in a dominant word order VS the only possible forms are the forms of the V-s conjugation, then the forms like…

Universal 356: Original In the languages where the verb agrees with subject and object, if forms like V-s are the only possible ones, then the…