Month: May 2020

Universal 45: verb agrees with attributive ⇒ verb agrees with Oblique Object ⇒ verb agrees with Indirect Object ⇒ verb agrees with Direct Object ⇒…

Universal 44: Original Standardized Assuming that grammatical relations are ordered from left to right according to their decreasing semantic concreteness and correspondingly increasing grammaticalization as…

Universal 43: Original New (not borrowed) case forms enter the nominal morphology through the affixation of adpositions, but such a development is possible only if…

Universal 42: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme at one time and at some later point it does not, one possible successor construction is the…

Universal 41: Original If a nominal has two or more affixes at one time and at an earlier time one of those was not present,…

Universal 40: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in NPs where the attributive and the head are prosodically separated and in NPs where two…

Universal 39: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme with both preposed and postposed attributives at one time and at some earlier time it had it…

Universal 38: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme both in headed and headless NPs at one time and at some later time it has Suffixaufnahme…

Universal 37: Original If Suffixaufnahme is historically preceded by a different construction, one possibility for that construction is to involve a pronoun-like constituent. This constituent…

Universal 36: Original If a language has Suffixaufnahme, it will also have at least one of the following NP-internal case marking patterns: complete marking, free…