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Universal 986: locative comparative ⇒ absolute simultaneous deranking & total identity deletion

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Universal 986: locative comparative ⇒ absolute simultaneous deranking & total identity deletion

Original
Languages with a locative comparative are languages with absolute simultaneous deranking and total identity deletion.
Standardized
IF there is locative comparative, THEN there is absolute simultaneous 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

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. The locative comparative is an instance of fixed-case adverbial comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably encoded as a constituent part of an adverbial phrase which is marked by an element with the basic meaning ‘on’ or ‘at’.2. 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. 3. A SIMULTANEOUS chain is a construction type which expresses a situation in which two events happen at the same point in time, or a situation in which two states obtain at the same point in time. 4. Cf. ##986, 997.

    1. May 2020

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