Universal #735

Legacy number: 735

 Number  732
 Original  The Zero Universal:
If a language employs zero/nonverbal copula encoding at all, it will employ this strategy in the encoding of identity statements.
 Standardized  IF predication can be encoded through zero or nonverbal copula, THEN this encoding will be used for identity statements.
 Keywords  copula, zero, identity statement
 Domain  syntax, semantics
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
 Source  Stassen 1997: 3.2

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Discussion
Notes
rephrased as an implication:IF such encoding for predicates other than identity statements, THEN also for identity statements.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
rephrased as an implication:
IF such encoding for predicates other than identity statements, THEN also for identity statements.