Universal #734

Legacy number: 734

 Number  731
 Original  The Auxiliary Universal:
If a language allows independent, non-supported, encoding of predicates, this encoding will always comprise event predicates.
 Standardized  IF predicates are encoded independently, i.e., without the support of a copula, substantive verb, or locative verb, THEN this encoding will always comprise event predicates.
 Keywords  copula, zero, event predicate
 Domain  inflection, syntax, semantics
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
 Source  Stassen 1997: 2.3

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Discussion
Notes
1. “... in traditional terms, the item supporting predicative adjectives and nominals is usually referred to as copula, whereas the supporting item of predicative adverbials is usually indicated by the term 'substantive verb' or 'locative verb'.” (Stassen 1997) 2. rephrased as an implication:IF such encoding with predicates other than those denoting events, THEN also with event predicates.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. "... in traditional terms, the item supporting predicative adjectives and nominals is usually referred to as copula, whereas the supporting item of predicative adverbials is usually indicated by the term 'substantive verb' or 'locative verb'." (Stassen 1997)

2. rephrased as an implication:
IF such encoding with predicates other than those denoting events, THEN also with event predicates.