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Universal 987: adverbial comparative ⇒ deranking & total identity deletion

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Universal 987: adverbial comparative ⇒ deranking & total identity deletion

Original
Languages with an adverbial comparative are languages with absolute deranking and total identity deletion.
Standardized
IF there is adverbial comparative, THEN there is absolute deranking and total identity deletion.
Keywords
comparative, deranking, identity deletion
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 110 languages
Source
Stassen 1984: 170, Stassen 1985: 106
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. The ADVERBIAL COMPARATIVE is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP has as its fixed form a marking which is employed in the language to encode adverbial constituents; the Latin ablative comparative (which is structurally expresses the standard NP as an instance of an adverbial source-phrase) is a case in point). 2. This is a summarized version of ##988-990.3. Cf. #214.

    1. May 2020

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