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Universal 466:

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Universal 466:

Original
There are no differences in the grammatical patterning of subjects of the sentences meaning “a person/thing belongs to a certain group of persons/things” (like “Socrates is Greek”) (cf. ) and subjects of verbs which (according to their semantics and/or grammatical features) belong to intransitive verbs of state.
Standardized
The subjects in predications of class membership are grammatically identical to subjects of intransitive verbs of state.
Keywords
subject, predication, transitivity, stative
Domain
inflection, syntax, semantics
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute?
Basis
?
Source
Kozinsky 1995: 152
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    See #464.

    1. May 2020

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