Month: May 2020

Universal 1985: Original The negative of past tense forms of Ex and/or Cop tends to be more regular in formation than the present-tense negative. Standardized…

Universal 1984: Original If Ex and Cop are lexically separate in the present tense, they tend to share a single past tense. Standardized IF the…

Universal 1983: Original If an Ex or Cop is grammatically unique, i.e., lacks criterial features of any major word class in the language, it will…

Universal 1982: Original … from the fact that subordinate clauses precede, it might be predicted that quotations would precede the quoting verb. Also, from the…

Universal 1981: Original rigid type III (verb-final) …Optional plural. Expression of plural in the noun is optional and is normally absent in nouns when they…

Universal 1980: Original rigid type III (verb-final) …Sequences of events of the ‘go, do, and return’ type appear as ‘having done, return’ rather than ‘go…

Universal 1979: Original rigid type III (verb-final) …Compound verbs. In addition to simple verbs there are compound verbs including such types as (a) noun-like or…

Universal 1978: Original rigid type III (verb-final) …Conjunctive verb form. There is a frequently-used, non-final verb form, a “conjunctive”, with the semantic value ‘having done…

Universal 1977: Original In a language with optional omission of a copula (under the conditions of , there is a tendency for the optional copula…

Universal 1976: Original When a language with zero copula inserts a pro-copula it does so between the subject and complement regardless of the normal position…