Month: May 2020

Universal 1885: Original The Cleftability Hierarchy:Subject > Direct Object > Indirect Object > Oblique NP > Genitive NP > Object of Comparison. Standardized IF Object…

Universal 1884: Original A split between 1st and 2nd person versus 3rd person marking is more likely with the verbal category assertive than with the…

Universal 1883: Original A split between 1st and 2nd person versus 3rd person marking is more likely with a verb marked for direct or sensory…

Universal 1882: Original If there is a split between 1st versus 2nd/3rd person marking in modal categories, then it is more likely to occur in:(a)…

Universal 1881: 1st vs. 2nd/3rd person split (past) ⇒ 1st vs. 2nd/3rd person split (future) Original Languages which show a split between 1st versus 2nd/3rd…

Universal 1880: 1st vs. 2nd/3rd person split: future > present > past Original If a language has different tense categories and shows a split between…

Universal 1879: Original In many languages there is a strong correlation between the presence of an expletive subject and some definite argument elsewhere in the…

Universal 1878: Original Deverbalization Hierarchy:If a verbal form inflects for tense-aspect-modality (TAM) like a predicated verb, then it will take subject and object dependents like…

Universal 1877: Original It seems that polarity [in gender/number systems] is never complete (i.e., polarity is never the sole configuration of gender/number markers under all…

Universal 1876: Original In the coding of subordination, elimination of Tense/Aspect/Mood distinctions takes place when the other phenomena (like agreement elimination, case/adposition marking, possessor/oblique coding…