Universal 749:
- Original
- The Universal of Locational Merging:
A language may have locational merging only if it allows locational encoding of predicative adjectives. - Standardized
- IF locational encoding of predicative adjectives is allowed, THEN there is locational merging.
- Keywords
- encoding, predicative adjective, locational merging
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
- Source
- Stassen 1997: 7.5
- Counterexamples
1. Merging (nominal or locational) occurs in a limited number of cases in which the locational or nominal strategy penetrates into the verbal core system.2. Cf. #751