Month: May 2020

Universal 1345: OV ⇒ Manner adverb – V;VO ⇒ V – Manner adverb Original Manner adverbs overwhelmingly precede the verb in OV languages and generally…

Universal 1344: VO ⇒ adjective-marker-standard;OV ⇒ standard-marker-adjective Original In comparative structures (e.g. ‘taller than John’) there’s a correlation betweenVO order and adjective-marker-standard order and between…

Universal 1343: O V ⇒ PP V;V O ⇒ V PP Original Adpositional phrases more often precede the verb in OV languages and more often…

Universal 1342: Original If a language has dominant SOV order and the genitive follows the governing noun and the language has a parts-of-speech system of…

Universal 1341: verbal reciprocal/reflexive ⇒ verb agreement with subject Original If a language has a verbal reciprocal/reflexive, it must have an overt AGR marker. Standardized…

Universal 1340: voiced obstruent word-finally ⇒ voiceless obstruent word-finally Original If a language has voiced obstruents word-finally, then it also has voiceless obstruents word-finally. Standardized…

Universal 1339: Original An element which serves as a semantic link between two other elements is likely to occur in linear order between them. Standardized…

Universal 1338: VO ⇒ flexion Original The more marked the position in which a word appears, the stronger the tendency for this word to present…

Universal 1337: Original The more marked a basic word order is, the stronger the tendency towards having a less marked alternative word order. Hierarchy of…

Universal 1336: Original Universal Hierarchy of Markedness of basic word orders:SOV < SVO < OVS < VOS < VSO < OSV Standardized Universal Hierarchy of…