Universal #595

Legacy number: 595

 Number  592
 Original  In all languages, some instances of adjacency relations among syntactic constituents symbolize semantic relatedness between the corresponding meanings; but in all languages there are some utterances with semantically related but non-adjacent constituents. Cf. Behaghel's First Law.
 Standardized  There are some instances of adjacency relations among syntactic constituents which symbolize semantic relatedness between the corresponding meanings; but in all languages there are some utterances with semantically related but non-adjacent constituents. Cf. Behaghel's First Law.
 Keywords  order
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Moravcsik 1980: 28

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Behaghel's First Law:Was zusammengehört, steht neben- (oder jedenfalls nah bei-) einander.(sinngemäß)
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Behaghel's First Law: Was zusammengehört, steht neben- (oder jedenfalls nah bei-) einander. (sinngemäβ)