Universal #1400

Legacy number: 1400

 Number  1396
 Original  If a language has predicate-reduced adverbials, then at least some of them will have temporal arguments. Thus, if reductions with locative arguments occur in a given language, then reductions with temporal arguments also will occur in that language.
 Standardized  IF there are locative argument-reduced adverbials, THEN there are temporal argument-reduced adverbials.
 Formula  locative argument reduced adverbials ⇒ temporal argument-reduced adverbials
 Keywords  adverbial
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  23 languages in Sanders 1972 [1978]</r>
 Source  Sanders 1972: 107, Sanders 1978: 64

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Discussion
Notes
See #1398 for the definition of (non-)reduced adverbials.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1398"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> for the definition of (non-)reduced adverbials.