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Universal 730:

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Universal 730:

Original
The Agreement Universal:
If a language has person agreement in intransitive main clauses, this agreement will at least be used in sentences with event predicates.
Standardized
Whenever there is person agreement in intransitive main clauses, IF intransitive predicates other than those denoting events agree in person, THEN those denoting events will also agree in person.
Keywords
agreement, person, transitivity, event predicate
Domain
inflection, syntax, semantics
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
Source
Stassen 1997: 2.3
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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