The Material-Gender Universal: In a split-adjective language, items which belong to the adjectival categories of Material and Gender will be on the nonverbal side of the split.
Standardized
IF there is a nominal-verbal split in encoding property concepts, THEN items which belong to the adjectival categories of Material and Gender will be be encoded by the non-verbal strategy.
Keywords
word class, adjective, property concepts, material, gender
In a SPLIT-ADJECTIVE language some property concept predicates will always receive a verbal encoding, whereas other property concept predicates will always be encoded by a nominal strategy.Seen as part of The Adjective Hierarchy (#741), the implicational idea is obvious.
In a SPLIT-ADJECTIVE language some property concept predicates will always receive a verbal encoding, whereas other property concept predicates will always be encoded by a nominal strategy.Seen as part of The Adjective Hierarchy (#741), the implicational idea is obvious.