Universal #992

Legacy number: 992

 Number  988
 Original  Languages with an exceed comparative are languages with conditional deranking and limited identity deletion.
 Standardized  IF there is exceed comparative, THEN there is conditional deranking and limited identity deletion.
 Formula  exceed comparative ⇒ conditional deranking & limited 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
Counterexamples
Problematic cases: Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), Fulani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo) (see the detailed discussion in Stassen 1985: 172ff.)
Notes
1. The exceed comparative is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably constructed as the direct object of a special transitive verb, the meaning of which can be glossed as ‘to exceed’, ‘to surpass’ or ‘to excel’.2. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the C-chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking. 3. Cf. ##987, 996.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The EXCEED COMPARATIVE is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably constructed as the direct object of a special transitive verb, the meaning of which can be glossed as 'to exceed', 'to surpass' or 'to excel'.

2. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the C-chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking.

3. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=987"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=996"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.