Universal #752

Legacy number: 752

 Number  749
 Original  The Universal of Locational Merging:
A language may have locational merging only if it allows locational encoding of predicative adjectives.
 Standardized  IF locational encoding of predicative adjectives is allowed, THEN there is locational merging.
 Keywords  encoding, predicative adjective, locational merging
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
 Source  Stassen 1997: 7.5

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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.2. Cf. #751
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=751"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">