Universal #990

Legacy number: 990

 Number  986
 Original  Languages with a locative comparative are languages with absolute simultaneous deranking and total identity deletion.
 Standardized  IF there is locative comparative, THEN there is absolute simultaneous deranking and total identity deletion.
 Formula  locative comparative ⇒ absolute simultaneous deranking & total identity deletion
 Keywords  comparative, deranking, identity deletion
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 110 languages
 Source  Stassen 1984: 172, Stassen 1985: 107

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Discussion
Notes
1. The locative comparative is an instance of fixed-case adverbial comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably encoded as a constituent part of an adverbial phrase which is marked by an element with the basic meaning ‘on’ or ‘at’.2. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages. 3. A SIMULTANEOUS chain is a construction type which expresses a situation in which two events happen at the same point in time, or a situation in which two states obtain at the same point in time. 4. Cf. ##986, 997.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The LOCATIVE COMPRATIVE is an instance of fixed-case adverbial comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably encoded as a constituent part of an adverbial phrase which is marked by an element with the basic meaning 'on' or 'at'.

2. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages.

3. A SIMULTANEOUS chain is a construction type which expresses a situation in which two events happen at the same point in time, or a situation in which two states obtain at the same point in time.

4. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=986"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=997"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.