Month: May 2020

Universal 1405: 2Du pronoun ⇒ 1Du pronoun &, V 3Du pronoun Original The existence of a 2nd person dual pronoun seems to always imply that…

Universal 1404: Original If a language expresses general number then it will do so (either solely, or as the normal case) through the maximally unmarked…

Universal 1403: Original In languages where transitive verbs have suffixes agreeing in definiteness or in person-gender-number with their direct objects, prepositions also have suffixes that…

Universal 1402: Original If a language has adverbial predicates which are analyzable into a noun and a case affix, then any postposed arguments of such…

Universal 1401: Original If a language has either of the orderings (S ADV V X) or (S V X ADV), then it will have both…

Universal 1400: Original If a language has S (O) V ordering but no SOV orderings, then it will have S (O) ADV V orderings, but…

Universal 1399: Original All languages have sentences with sentence-initial and non-sentence initial adverbial constituents.For most, if not all, adverbial constructions in all languages , the…

Universal 1398: Original No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as argument-internal clitics that are postposed to the constituents that they are bound to.…

Universal 1397: Original No language has adverbial predicates which are expressed as case prefixes. Standardized Adverbial case affixes are always suffixes. Keywords adverbial, case, affix,…

Universal 1396: locative argument reduced adverbials ⇒ temporal argument-reduced adverbials Original If a language has predicate-reduced adverbials, then at least some of them will have…