Month: May 2020

Universal 1305: postposition ⇒ Mood affixes on V are suffixed Original If a language is postpositional, mood affixes on verb (if any) are suffixed. Standardized…

Universal 1304: SOV ⇒ Plural affixes on N are suffixed Original If a language has SOV, plural affixes on noun (if any) are suffixed with…

Universal 1303: postposition ⇒ Plural affixes on N are suffixed Original If a language is postpositional, plural affixes on noun (if any) are suffixed with…

Universal 1302: SOV ⇒ Definiteness affixes on N are suffixed Original If a language has SOV, definiteness affixes on noun (if any) are suffixed with…

Universal 1301: SOV ⇒ nominalizing affixes on N are suffixed; Original If a language has SOV, nominalizing affixes on N (if any) are suffixed with…

Universal 1300: postposition ⇒ Nominalizing affixes on N are suffixed Original If a language is postpositional, nominalizing affixes on noun (if any) are suffixed with…

Universal 1299: SOV ⇒ Indefiniteness affixes on N are suffixed; Original If a language has SOV, indefiniteness affixes on N (if any) are suffixed. Standardized…

Universal 1298: postposition ⇒ Indefiniteness affixes on N are suffixed Original If a language is postpositional, indefiniteness affixes on noun (if any) are suffixed. Standardized…

Universal 1297: Original For the languages with both the passive and resultative, the following implication could be suggested: if an agentive object is forbidden in…

Universal 1296: unobservable > irreversible observable > monovalent reversible > bivalent locational Original In languages where both resultatives proper and derived statives have the same…