Universal #751

Legacy number: 751

 Number  748
 Original  The Universal of Nominal Merging*:
A language may have nominal merging only if it allows nominal encoding of predicative adjectives.
 Standardized  IF nominal encoding of predicative adjectives is allowed, THEN there is nominal merging.
 Formula  nominal encoding of predicate adjective ⇒ nominal merging
 Keywords  encoding, predicative adjective, nominal merging
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
 Source  Stassen 1997: 7.6

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Discussion
Notes
1. Merging (nominal or locational) occurs in a limited number of cases in which the locational or nominal strategy penetrates into the verbal core system.Cf. #752.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. MERGING (nominal or locational) occurs in a limited number of cases in which the locational or nominal strategy penetrates into the verbal core system.

2. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=752"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">