Universal 249:
- Original
- Predicate hierarchy 1A:
non-presentative ascriptive predications(Xi)loc > A > N > (Xi)poss.
This hierarchy says that if a predication type at a certain point in the hierarchy is predicable in that language, then all predication types preceding it in the hierarchy are also predicable in that language.
- Standardized
- Predicate hierarchy 1A:
non-presentative ascriptive predications(Xi)loc > A > N > (Xi)poss.
This hierarchy says that if a predication type at a certain point in the hierarchy is predicable in that language, then all predication types preceding it in the hierarchy are also predicable in that language.
- Keywords
- word class, predicate, possessive, noun, adjective, locative
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implicational hierarchy
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 37 languages of Hengeveld’s sample
- Source
- Hengeveld 1992: 130
- Counterexamples
See also #253.