Abstract
Abstract Although predicate nominals are certainly not immune to takeover by the verbal or the locational strategy, they form a category which in many languages has its own encoding strategy. In such a case we will say that a language has a NOMINAL STRATEGY at its disposal. As it turns out, the nominal strategy manifests itself across languages in various different morphosyntactic ways. The forms which the nominal strategy may take will be explored in Sections 3.2-3.5. Following that, several explanatory issues regarding predicate nominal encoding can be formulated. In Section 3.7 I will develop the Principle of ldentity Pressure, which can be argued to provide an explanation of the unique typological characteristics of the nominal strategy.
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