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.)
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. 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.