Universal #253

Legacy number: 253

 Number  253
 Original  Predicate hierarchy 1B:

(Xi/0)loc > (Xi)poss
this hierarchy states that presentative localizing predications are more easily predicable than presentative possessive predications, and predicts that if presentative possessive predications are predicable in a language, presentative localizing predications will be predicable as well.
 Standardized  IF presentative possessive predications are predicable, THEN presentative localizing predications will be predicable as well.
 Formula  possessive predication ⇒ localizing predication
 Keywords  predicate, hierarchy, possessive, locative
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  37 languages of Hengeveld’s sample
 Source  Hengeveld 1992: 141

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Discussion
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See also #249.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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