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Universal 465:

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Universal 465:

Original
With more than chance frequency, in sentences meaning ‘a person/thing belongs to a certain group of persons/things’ (like ‘Socrates is Greek’), the name of the person/thing included in this group is considered a subject.
Standardized
With more than chance frequency, in predications of class membership, the NP referring to the class member will be the subject and the class the predicate.
Keywords
subject, predicate
Domain
inflection, syntax, semantics
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
?
Source
Kozinsky 1995: 152
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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