Universal 445: complement-balancing ⇒ assimilation of ANC to non-derived NP; complement-deranking ⇒ retention of sentential marking of ANC
Original
Complement-balancing languages favour assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs, while complement-deranking languages favour retention of sentential marking in ANCs.
Standardized
IF there is complement-balancing, THEN assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs will be favoured. IF there is complement-deranking, THEN retention of sentential marking in ANCs will be favoured.
In complement-balancinG languages, at least some noun clauses have predicates which look like predicates in independent or matrix clauses (thus, both the matrix and the subordinate predicates remain structurally of the same rank). In complement-deranking languages, the predicate in noun clauses is always deranked, i.e. the form of the predicate itself signals the subordination of that clause.
In complement-balancinG languages, at least some noun clauses have predicates which look like predicates in independent or matrix clauses (thus, both the matrix and the subordinate predicates remain structurally of the same rank). In complement-deranking languages, the predicate in noun clauses is always deranked, i.e. the form of the predicate itself signals the subordination of that clause.