Month: May 2020

Universal 1935: local interrogative is borrowed ⇒ temporal interrogative is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of a local interrogative in a language,…

Universal 1934: local indefinite is borrowed ⇒ impersonal indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of a local indefinite, then it is…

Universal 1933: impersonal indefinite is borrowed ⇒ temporal indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of an impersonal indefinite, then it is…

Universal 1932: indefinite other than negative indefinite is borrowed ⇒ negative indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of other than negative…

Universal 1931: local indefinite is borrowed ⇒ temporal indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of a local indefinite in a language,…

Universal 1930: personal indefinite is borrowed ⇒ impersonal indefinite is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of a personal indefinite in a language,…

Universal 1929: Original If there is a word-form loan of a free-choice indefinite in a language, then there is a word-form loan of other than…

Universal 1928: negative determiner is borrowed ⇒ specific determiner is borrowed Original If there is a word-form loan of a negative determiner in a language,…

Universal 1927: Original If nothing else in the language agrees with nouns in terms of class, numeral expressions will. Standardized IF anything other than numerals…

Universal 1926: Original There is an apparently universal iconic tendency in diminutives and augmentatives: diminutives tend to contain high front vowels, whereas augmentatives tend to…