Month: May 2020

Universal 135: Original Pronominal Subjects and Agents are more likely to genitivize in ANCs than non-pronominal ones. Standardized IF non-pronominal subjects (S) and agents (A)…

Universal 134: Original Ergative languages favour SENT and SENT-POSS ANCs and disfavour POSS-ACC and NOMN ones. Standardized IF there is ergative alignment, THEN action nominalizations…

Universal 133: Original It is relatively unusual for languages (in ANCs) to combine sentential dependent-marking for the S with non-sentential marking for the A or…

Universal 132: SENT (ANC) ⇒ SOV & G N Original Languages with the SENT type of ANCs are to a large extent SOV/GN languages. Standardized…

Universal 131: Original If an ANC retains its sentential head-marking for some argument, it also retains its sentential dependent-marking for the same argument. Standardized IF…

Universal 130: Original Head-dependent word order is the same in ANCs and non-derived NPs. Standardized IF heads precede/follow dependents in non-derived noun phrases, THEN they…

Universal 129: Original Either all the arguments in a transitive ANC retain their sentential dependent-marking or at least one of them genitivizes (except for the…

Universal 128: Original Of the two arguments in transitive ANCs, the one most likely to lose its sentential dependent-marking and head-marking is the A (except…

Universal 127: Original No language has syntactic means (dependent marking, head marking, word order) which are exclusively used in ANCs. Standardized IF any kinds of…

Universal 126: N Num ⇒ N Rel;equivalently: Rel N ⇒ Num N Original If a language has noun before numeral, then it has noun before…