Month: May 2020

Universal 1875: Original Frequency hierarchy for the cross-linguistic coding of subordination:elimination of tense/aspect/mood >> elimination of agreement distinctions, omission of verb arguments >> case/adposition marking…

Universal 1874: Original Co-occurrence tendencies in the cross-linguistic coding of subordination, where ‘>>’ means ‘more frequent than’:(a) Case/adposition & agreement eliminated >> case/adposition marking &…

Universal 1873: Original Implicational patterns in the cross-linguistic coding of subordination:(a) If there is elimination of Aspect, then there is elimination of Tense and Mood.(b)…

Universal 1872: Original There are instances in which a 1st person inclusive plural shows by its morphological structure that it consists of the 1st person…

Universal 1871: Original It holds as a strong statistical implication that whenever there is a 1st person exclusive dual there is also a 1st person…

Universal 1870: Original Like other registers, baby talk or selected features of it may be extended to secondary uses, e.g. (i) to suggest the speech…

Universal 1869: Original Core items of the baby talk register tend to persist for long periods of time. Standardized Core items of the baby talk…

Universal 1868: Original The most striking – and apparently universal – variability is in what can be called “degree of babyishness”. Changes in the degree…

Universal 1867: Original Baby talk is also characterized by:high percentage of questions;frequent use of tags;here-and-now semantics;high semantic continuity between pairs of utterances;striking shifts in pronoun…

Universal 1866: Original Every speech community seems to have a small lexicon of words used primarily with young children. The words of this special lexicon…