Universal #249

Legacy number: 249

 Number  249
 Original  Predicate hierarchy 1A:
non-presentative ascriptive predications

(Xi)loc > A > N > (Xi)poss.

This hierarchy says that if a predication type at a certain point in the hierarchy is predicable in that language, then all predication types preceding it in the hierarchy are also predicable in that language.
 Standardized  Predicate hierarchy 1A:
non-presentative ascriptive predications

(Xi)loc > A > N > (Xi)poss.

This hierarchy says that if a predication type at a certain point in the hierarchy is predicable in that language, then all predication types preceding it in the hierarchy are also predicable in that language.
 Keywords  word class, predicate, possessive, noun, adjective, locative
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  37 languages of Hengeveld’s sample
 Source  Hengeveld 1992: 130

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Discussion
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See also #253.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=253"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">