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Universal 988: exceed comparative ⇒ conditional deranking & limited identity deletion

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Universal 988: exceed comparative ⇒ conditional deranking & limited identity deletion

Original
Languages with an exceed comparative are languages with conditional deranking and limited identity deletion.
Standardized
IF there is exceed comparative, THEN there is conditional deranking and limited identity deletion.
Keywords
comparative, deranking, identity deletion
Domain
syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 110 languages
Source
Stassen 1984: 170; Stassen 1985: 106
Counterexamples
Problematic cases: Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), Fulani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo) (see the detailed discussion in Stassen 1985: 172ff.)
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    1. The exceed comparative is an instance of fixed-case comparative constructions, in which the standard NP is invariably constructed as the direct object of a special transitive verb, the meaning of which can be glossed as ‘to exceed’, ‘to surpass’ or ‘to excel’.2. Languages which can derank consecutive predicates only in cases where the two predicates in the C-chain have identical subjects are called languages with CONDITIONAL (consecutive) deranking. 3. Cf. ##987, 996.

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