Universal #466

Legacy number: 466

 Number  465
 Original  With more than chance frequency, in sentences meaning 'a person/thing belongs to a certain group of persons/things' (like 'Socrates is Greek'), the name of the person/thing included in this group is considered a subject.
 Standardized  With more than chance frequency, in predications of class membership, the NP referring to the class member will be the subject and the class the predicate.
 Keywords  subject, predicate
 Domain  inflection, syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  ?
 Source  Kozinsky 1995: 152

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