Month: May 2020

Universal 155: Original Overt marking in the unitransitive clause implies overt dative marking. Any suspension of dative marking implies suspension of object marking; the restriction…

Universal 154: Original If the same adposition is used as a marker for both object and dative, including such non-prototypic datives as projected recipient, then…

Universal 153: Original If, as a rule, nouns share inflectional properties with adjectives, they also share them with determiners. Standardized IF nouns share inflectional properties…

Universal 152: noun-like inflection and syntax (lower numerals) ⇒ noun-like inflection and syntax (higher numerals);adjectival inflection and syntax (higher numerals) ⇒ adjectival inflection and syntax…

Universal 151: Original If adnominal adjectives inflect like nouns, so do headless ones. Standardized IF adnominal adjectives inflect like nouns, THEN so do headless ones.…

Universal 150: Original If head nouns have adjective-like inflection, so do adnominal nouns. Standardized IF head nouns have adjective-like inflection, THEN so do adnominal nouns.…

Universal 149: Original The number of inflectional classes of adjectives is never larger than the number of inflectional classes of nouns. Standardized The number of…

Universal 148: Inflection (Adj) ⇒ Inflection (Noun) Original If adjectives are inflected, so are nouns. Standardized IF adjectives are inflected, THEN nouns are inflected. Keywords…

Universal 147: Original If attributive adjectives have the form of relative clauses, there is a positive correlation with SVO. Standardized IF attributive adjectives have the…

Universal 146: Original Tendency: in SOV-languages adjectives can be the head of NPs whereas SVO-languages and VSO-languages tend to require a dummy head noun (‘thing’,…