Universal #991

Legacy number: 991

 Number  987
 Original  Languages with an adverbial comparative are languages with absolute deranking and total identity deletion.
 Standardized  IF there is adverbial comparative, THEN there is absolute deranking and total identity deletion.
 Formula  adverbial comparative ⇒ 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: 170, Stassen 1985: 106

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Discussion
Notes
1. The ADVERBIAL COMPARATIVE is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP has as its fixed form a marking which is employed in the language to encode adverbial constituents; the Latin ablative comparative (which is structurally expresses the standard NP as an instance of an adverbial source-phrase) is a case in point). 2. This is a summarized version of ##988-990.3. Cf. #214.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The ADVERBIAL COMPARATIVE is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP has as its fixed form a marking which is employed in the language to encode adverbial constituents; the Latin ablative comparative (which is structurally expresses the standard NP as an instance of an adverbial source-phrase) is a case in point).

2. This is a summarized version of <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=988"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=989"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=990"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

3. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=214"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.