Universal #467

Legacy number: 467

 Number  466
 Original  There are no differences in the grammatical patterning of subjects of the sentences meaning “a person/thing belongs to a certain group of persons/things” (like “Socrates is Greek”) (cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=465"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) and subjects of verbs which (according to their semantics and/or grammatical features) belong to intransitive verbs of state.
 Standardized  The subjects in predications of class membership are grammatically identical to subjects of intransitive verbs of state.
 Keywords  subject, predication, transitivity, stative
 Domain  inflection, syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute?
 Basis  ?
 Source  Kozinsky 1995: 152

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See #464.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=464"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">