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Universal 464:

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Universal 464:

Original
With more than chance frequency, an NP with a semantic role of peregrinator (the one who moves) is considered a subject of the sentences with verbs meaning “to move in a certain way.”
Standardized
With more than chance frequency, an NP with the semantic role of peregrinator (the one who moves) will be the subject of clauses with verbs meaning ‘to move in a certain way’.
Keywords
subject, verb, transitivity
Domain
inflection, syntax, semantics
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
?
Source
Kozinsky 1995: 152
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Cf. #464.

    1. May 2020

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