Universal 253: possessive predication ⇒ localizing predication

Universal 253: possessive predication ⇒ localizing predication

Original

Predicate hierarchy 1B:

(Xi/0)loc > (Xi)poss
this hierarchy states that presentative localizing predications are more easily predicable than presentative possessive predications, and predicts that if presentative possessive predications are predicable in a language, presentative localizing predications will be predicable as well.

Standardized

IF presentative possessive predications are predicable, THEN presentative localizing predications will be predicable as well.

Keywords

predicate, hierarchy, possessive, locative

Domain

syntax

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

37 languages of Hengeveld’s sample

Source

Hengeveld 1992: 141

Counterexamples