Universal #748
Legacy number: 748
| Number | 745 |
| Original | The Nominal-Switch Universal (part 2): In cases where a nominal Verbal/Nominal-switch is motivated by conditions of Time-Stability, the nominal strategy will encode the more time-stable option. |
| Standardized | IF a nominal verbal/nominal switch is motivated by conditions of Time-Stability, THEN the nominal strategy will encode the more time-stable option. |
| Keywords | verbal/nominal switching, encoding, time stability |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997 |
| Source | Stassen 1997: 6.3 |
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