Universal #733
Legacy number: 733
| Number | 730 |
| Original | The Agreement Universal: If a language has person agreement in intransitive main clauses, this agreement will at least be used in sentences with event predicates. |
| Standardized | Whenever there is person agreement in intransitive main clauses, IF intransitive predicates other than those denoting events agree in person, THEN those denoting events will also agree in person. |
| Keywords | agreement, person, transitivity, event predicate |
| Domain | inflection, syntax, semantics |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997 |
| Source | Stassen 1997: 2.3 |
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