Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the time

Some more universal violations:

Swedish disbeys #2. (You can, with good justification, argue that the -s
genitive is nowadays an enclitic, but I'll refuse to take seriously any
analysis that says that _Jesu_ is formed from _Jesus_ by adding a clitic!)

Hm, Tairezazh violates #23 too. But that's one of the "much better than chance
frequency" ones, so I don't much care. And #39, if only in the genitive plural
(is is a "almost always" one). As said, it defies 40, which is apparently an
absolute one.

Meghean is pushing the line on #25. Both nominal and pronominal objects
usually follows the verb, but only nominal ones can be fronted.

Steienzh defies #2, and 27.

Kalini Sapak defies #2, and 32.

Searixina and Telendlest defy #2, and likely some more, since they're not very
well developed yet!

                                              Andreas

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