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Universal 732:
- Original
- The Zero Universal:
If a language employs zero/nonverbal copula encoding at all, it will employ this strategy in the encoding of identity statements.
- Standardized
- IF predication can be encoded through zero or nonverbal copula, THEN this encoding will be used for identity statements.
- Keywords
- copula, zero, identity statement
- Domain
- syntax, semantics
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
- Source
- Stassen 1997: 3.2
- Counterexamples
rephrased as an implication:IF such encoding for predicates other than identity statements, THEN also for identity statements.