Month: May 2020

Universal 275: category X (Trial) ⇒ category X (Dual) Original In all languages: if there is any grammatical opposition in the forms of Trial, the…

Universal 274: Original If by means of reduplication a decrease of quantity or degree may be expressed in a language, there are cases in that…

Universal 273: aspect (Indic.) ⇒ aspect (Imper.) Original If in a language there is imperative mood and there are aspect distinctions in the indicative mood,…

Universal 272: person V number (non-indicative mood) ⇒ person V number (indicative mood) Original If there is a certain person or number distinction in the…

Universal 271: gender (verb (1 & 2)) ⇒ gender (verb (3)) Original If there exists a certain gender distinction in verb forms of the 1st…

Universal 270: category X (neuter gender) ⇒ category X (non-neuter gender) Original If a certain grammatical distinction occurs in the paradigm of the neuter gender,…

Universal 269: Original If in a language there is a special distinction of animate and inanimate (personal and non-personal) nouns connected with a regular syncretism…

Universal 268: ¬suppletive Pl (pronoun) ⇒ (marker Pl(pronoun) = marker Pl(noun)) Original If there is non-suppletive formation of the plural by pronouns, then plural markers…

Universal 267: reduplication ⇒ it expresses ‘change of quantity or degree’ Original If in a language reduplication (full or partial) exists as a productive grammatical…

Universal 266: Original If a language has Person and Number inflection, then it also has Tense, Aspect and Mood inflection. Standardized IF there is Person…