Universal #446

Legacy number: 446

 Number  445
 Original  Complement-balancing languages favour assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs, while complement-deranking languages favour retention of sentential marking in ANCs.
 Standardized  IF there is complement-balancing, THEN assimilation of ANCs to non-derived NPs will be favoured.
IF there is complement-deranking, THEN retention of sentential marking in ANCs will be favoured.
 Formula  complement-balancing ⇒ assimilation of ANC to non-derived NP;
complement-deranking ⇒ retention of sentential marking of ANC
 Keywords  nominalization, complement-balancing, complement-deranking
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996
 Source  Koptjevskaya-Tamm 1996: 39

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Discussion
Notes
In complement-balancinG languages, at least some noun clauses have predicates which look like predicates in independent or matrix clauses (thus, both the matrix and the subordinate predicates remain structurally of the same rank). In complement-deranking languages, the predicate in noun clauses is always deranked, i.e. the form of the predicate itself signals the subordination of that clause.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
In COMPLEMENT-BALANCING languages, at least some noun clauses have predicates which look like predicates in independent or matrix clauses (thus, both the matrix and the subordinate predicates remain structurally of the same rank).
In COMPLEMENT-DERANKING languages, the predicate in noun clauses is always deranked, i.e. the form of the predicate itself signals the subordination of that clause.