Universal #425
Legacy number: 425
| Number | 424 |
| Original | There is no language where, given a constituent class some members of which are immediate constituents of the sentence at the point in a grammatical derivation where verb-agreement rules apply and some others members are non-immediate constituents of the sentence at that point, the verb agrees with some or all non-immediate constituents but with no immediate constituents. |
| Standardized | Provided there is a constituent class some members of which are immediate constituents of the sentence at the point in a grammatical derivation where verb-agreement rules apply and some others members are non-immediate constituents of the sentence at that point: IF the verb agrees with some or all non-immediate constituents, THEN the verb also agrees with at least some immediate constituents. |
| Keywords | verb agreement, constituency |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b |
| Source | Moravcsik 1978b: 365, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=9"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> |
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