Chomsky's grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it, whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.

乔姆斯基的语法显示出语言变化的模式，这些模式并不受语言谱系或贯穿谱系的路径的影响；而格林伯格式的普遍性则预言了特定的语法词序关系类型之间所存在的紧密互依性。