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Universal 590:

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Universal 590:

Original
All languages include some utterances where the grouping of some semantic features in syntactic surface structure is identical to their grouping in semantic representations; but in no language are such groupings always congruent on the two levels.
Standardized
All languages include some utterances where the grouping of some semantic features in syntactic surface structure is identical to their grouping in semantic representations; but in no language are such groupings always congruent on the two levels.
Keywords
order
Domain
syntax, semantics
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Moravcsik 1980: 27
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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