Universal 1683: absolute deranking ⇒ conditional deranking
- Original
- There are no languages in which deranking under non-identity of subjects is possible while at the same time deranking under identity of subjects is forbidden.
- Standardized
- IF there is absolute deranking, THEN there is conditional deranking.
- Keywords
- deranking
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 110 languages
- Source
- Stassen 1985: 85ff.
- Counterexamples
1. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the C-chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages. 2. Most European languages also seem to confirm this prediction in quantitative terms: If a language has both different-subject marking (DS) and same-subject marking (SS) constructions and one of these two patterns is somewhat marginal, it is usually the DS pattern that plays a marginal role. (König & van der Auwera 1990: 340)