Month: May 2020

Universal 1895: Original A lexical item that is of the “grammatical” type (which type includes at least conjunctions and adpositions) cannot be included in the…

Universal 1894: Original No inflectional affixes can belong to the set of properties borrowed fro a language unless at least one derivational affix also belongs…

Universal 1893: Original A lexical item whose meaning is verbal can never be included in the set of borrowed properties. Standardized A lexical item whose…

Universal 1892: Original No lexical item that is not a noun can belong to the class of properties borrowed from a language unless this class…

Universal 1891: Original No member of a constituent class whose members do not serve as domains of accentuation can be included in the class of…

Universal 1890: Original No non-lexical language property can be borrowed unless the borrowing language already includes borrowed lexical items from the same source language. Standardized…

Universal 1889: Original The relation of the retroflex to the dental consonants proves to be a mere variety of the opposition of pharyngealized and non-pharyngealized…

Universal 1888: Original Languages possessing the pairs voice–voiceless, aspirate–non-aspirate, have also a phoneme /h/. Standardized IF there is an opposition of voice vs. voiceless and…

Universal 1887: Original The Cleftability Hierarchy:Subject > Direct Object > Indirect Object > Oblique NP > Genitive NP > Object of Comparison. Syntactic positions on…

Universal 1886: Original The Cleftability Hierarchy:Subject > Direct Object > Indirect Object > Oblique NP > Genitive NP > Object of Comparison. Syntactic positions on…