Universal 1685: Original If an SOV language deranks its consecutive chains, it will derank anterior predicates. Standardized IF basic order is SOV and there is…
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Universal 1685: Original If an SOV language deranks its consecutive chains, it will derank anterior predicates. Standardized IF basic order is SOV and there is…
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Universal 1684: Original No language permits conditional deranking under identity with a non-subject while at the same time forbidding conditional deranking under subject identity. Standardized…
Universal 1683: absolute deranking ⇒ conditional deranking Original There are no languages in which deranking under non-identity of subjects is possible while at the same…
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Universal 1682: Original In languages that make an extensive use of conjunctions converbs play a minor role or are completely absent. Conversely, in languages that…
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Universal 1681: Original There is a very general principle that if one resolution operates [in determining agreement with conjoined NPs], all must operate if possible.…
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Universal 1680: Original Habitual grams tend to come from verbs meaning ‘live’, ‘know’ or ‘be used to’. Standardized Habitual grams tend to come from verbs…
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Universal 1679: Original Anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’)…
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Universal 1678: Original Progressives (which develop from locative, postural or movement verb constructions) tend to develop into imperfectives or occasionally presents. Standardized Progressives (which develop…
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Universal 1677: Original There is a strong tendency for agent-oriented modality to be expressed by verbs, auxiliaries or non-bound particles, whereas speaker-oriented and epistemic modalities…
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Universal 1676: Original Standardized IF there is a phoneme all of whose allophones are variants of /f/, THEN there is a phoneme whose characteristic variant…