Month: May 2020

Universal 315: Original If and only if a language has a syntactic form of the subjective*, it has a syntactic form of the accusative*. Standardized…

Universal 314: Original In the majority of languages the forms that function as direct objects may also function as adverbial modifiers, especially adverbial modifiers of…

Universal 313: Original In an overwhelming majority of languages all or almost all markers of the syntactic form of the indefinitive* are zero markers. Standardized…

Universal 312: Original If among syntactic functions of a form there is the subject of intransitive verb of action, then the subject of the intransitive…

Universal 311: Original If among the syntactic functions of the form there is the subject of intransitive verb of state, then the subject of intransitive…

Universal 310: Original If some nouns have a syntactic form of indefinitive*, then the citation form coincides exactly with this syntactic form. Standardized The citation…

Universal 309: Original In the overwhelming majority of languages the citation form belongs to the syntactical form of the nominative*. Standardized The citation form of…

Universal 308: Original If active and passive voices differ from each other in nominal actants form, they differ in verb form as well. Standardized IF…

Universal 307: Original If active and passive voices differ in verb form, then the corresponding constructions differ from each other in form of at least…

Universal 306: Original In the majority of languages verbal forms of the passive voice morphologically are not more complex than forms of the active voice.…