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Universal 985: allative comparative ⇒ absolute posterior consecutive deranking & total identity deletion

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Universal 985: allative comparative ⇒ absolute posterior consecutive deranking & total identity deletion

Original
Languages with an allative comparative are languages with absolute posterior consecutive deranking and total identity deletion.
Standardized
IF there is allative comparative, THEN there is absolute posterior consecutive deranking and total identity deletion.
Keywords
comparative, deranking, identity deletion
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 110 languages
Source
Stassen 1984: 172, Stassen 1985: 107
Counterexamples
Breton (Celtic, Indo-European) where the Allative Comparative is not matched by a deranked consecutive-chain, at least not in the present stage of the development of the language; Kanuri (Nilo-Saharan) presents the rare case of a comparative which has not been modeled on a strict chaining construction, but rather on the semantically related final construction (for discussion of these counterexamples see Stassen 1985: 142ff.)

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. The allative comparative is an instance of fixed-case adverbial comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably marked as a constituent part of a goal phrase.2. The deranked consecutive chains can be divided into two typologically significant classes, on the basis of whether it is the anterior predicate or the posterior predicate which is affected by the deranking procedure. The first class is referred to as ANTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING, the second one as POSTERIOR (CONSECUTIVE) DERANKING. 3. Languages in which the deranking procedure does not obtain a structural condition on subject-identity and where a deranked predicate can have its own overt subject are called ABSOLUTE deranking languages. 4. Cf. ##985, 995.

    1. May 2020

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